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Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:21:45 +0200

> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:11:06 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 03:47:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0100
> > > From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > the Info format is implicitly left to right top to bottom...
> > 
> > No, it isn't.  What you meant to say is that the text in an Info file
> > is stored in the so-called "logical" (a.k.a. "reading") direction.
> > That is true; however the Info _viewer_ could very well _display_ that
> > text in any direction suitable for the language(s) or script(s) used
> > by the Info file.
> 
> I didn't said anything contrary to what you say.  The 'Info format' is
> indeed what corresponds to 'the text in an Info file', not what a
> viewer would show.

OK, but then what exactly did you mean to convey by saying that the
format is implicitly left to right?  Text is always stored in a file
in the logical left to right order, and is processed by any program in
that order.



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