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bug#59815: 29.0.60; EEC manual does not build with the last C version of
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J.P. |
Subject: |
bug#59815: 29.0.60; EEC manual does not build with the last C version of texinfo |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:54:42 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "J.P." <jp@neverwas.me>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com
>> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:45:06 -0800
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800
>> >> From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> >>
>> >> With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
>> >> there is no @indentedblock.
>> >
>> > Thanks, fixed.
>>
>> Thanks everyone. I shall refrain from using @-commands not found in
>> other Emacs manuals, going forward. I have also obtained a copy of
>> texinfo 4.13.
>
> Thanks.
>
> In this particular case, there was no reason to use @indentedblock in the
> first place, because our conventions are to format such descriptions as a
> @table of @item's. Then the indentation of the body of each @item is
> automatically generated by makeinfo.
Duly noted, thanks.
To all my convention flouting peeps out there, you heard it here:
abandon that makeshift jank and embrace the ancient ways (and save
yourself some ugly HTML to boot).
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