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bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc. |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:55:04 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <3035@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0700
>
> > I don't think it's a good idea to show bold in Info when it comes out
> > as slanted in print. And making this change in the printed output as
> > well would be unwise, IMO, as this is a very old and well-known
> > convention of Texinfo.
>
> I see. But you said the same thing about emphasis (_foo_). If both "some
> quotation" and _something emphasized_ appear as slanted text in print, then
> how
> does a reader distinguish these uses?
I think the reader cannot distinguish, indeed, by the typeface alone.
But @emph is really very rarely used, unlike @dfn; and then, there's
context. So in practice the problem is not very big one, I think. At
least I myself never had problems.
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/17
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/18
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- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/19
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/19
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/19
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/20
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Chong Yidong, 2009/04/17
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/17
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/18
- bug#3035: 23.0.92; doc, terminology for graphics, display, terminal, etc., Drew Adams, 2009/04/18
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