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bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:53:20 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, ruediger@c-plusplus.de, 16439@debbugs.gnu.org,
> sva-news@mygooglest.com
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:54:39 +0200
>
> >> Most optional features in Emacs are grouped into "packages".
> >>
> >> Should "packages" be highlighted as a string. Of course not.
> >
> > Why not? This particular example is produced from @dfn in Texinfo,
> > which should emphasize its argument. In the printed version
> > "packages" is typeset in slanted typeface (and without the quotes).
>
> It makes sense to emphasize either 1) using quotes and no additional
> highlighting or 2) using italic without the quotes, but not both styles
> (italic and quotes) at the same time.
I agree, and didn't say anything to the contrary. I told about the
slant typeface as an evidence that what came out of @dfn should be
emphasized in some way.
> >> There is no additional emphasis on quotations in books.
> >
> > But we are not talking about books, are we? We are talking about Info
> > manuals, which are mostly documentation of software.
>
> Ideally, the look of on-line documentation should not differ from
> the printed version.
We are not talking about ideals.
> But actually I see no much need in replacing Texinfo as the source format.
> As for the output format, we could try to migrate in the direction of HTML.
> However, HTML has its own problems (no index, slow rendering, etc.)
Indeed, and I wasn't asking to switch.
This was only about emphasizing quoted strings in Info manuals.
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Sebastien Vauban, 2014/01/14
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, RĂ¼diger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/14
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Drew Adams, 2014/01/14
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Juri Linkov, 2014/01/20
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/20
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/20
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Juri Linkov, 2014/01/21
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Juri Linkov, 2014/01/22
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/22
- bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers, Drew Adams, 2014/01/20