From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup? Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:53:03 +0300 Message-ID: <874lyt38nk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874lyz396q.fsf@gmail.com> <877f3q8qlp.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coR9g-00020y-LJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 04:53:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coR9b-0004fz-Nd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 04:53:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877f3q8qlp.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:14:10 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2017-03-15 17:14 +0100) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Hello, I've noticed that several packages contain "@code" structures in >> their synopses, but only 'description' field supports texinfo markup. >> For example, look at: >> >> guix package -s ruby-minitest-bonus-assertions >> >> So I wonder, should these synopses be adjusted to remove @code things, >> or would it be better to make sysnopses support it? > > Maybe we should support Texinfo in synopses after all. I don=E2=80=99t t= hink > there were good reasons not to do it. > > Thoughts? I'm not aware of potential problems so I think it would be good to add this support to synopses. --=20 Alex