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bug#40900: Add face for function params in info
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#40900: Add face for function params in info |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:03:11 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700
> Cc: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>, 40900@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I think the challenge is to reliably identify the strings that are
> > function parameters. Info files lack the markup that identifies
> > various symbols in the Texinfo sources, and the code which finds
> > function arguments must not err too much, or users will complain.
>
> Isn't this therefore a limitation in Texinfo? We could of course hack
> around it, but it sounds like it would risk being error-prone and hard
> to maintain.
It is a limitation of the Info format produced from Texinfo sources.
For example, HTML format produced from Texinfo still has markup, which
could be used for such features.