From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: info: display '--' as '-' Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:29:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120807060157.GA13222@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: mofaph , David Kastrup , git To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 07 10:29:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SyfAB-0005WD-T3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:29:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752518Ab2HGI3K (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 04:29:10 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:41342 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751412Ab2HGI3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 04:29:04 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3WrpmG02kKz4KK85; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: 85qboCOqaN1T5QKaYbd3FyM4xV+wgy96DYqb2D7VQ9Q= Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-155-207.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.155.207]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3WrpmF6bkhzbbhW; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5688ACA2A2; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:29:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Mmmmmm-MMMMMM!! A plate of STEAMING PIECES of a PIG mixed with the shreds of SEVERAL CHICKENS!!... Oh BOY!! I'm about to swallow a TORN-OFF section of a COW'S LEFT LEG soaked in COTTONSEED OIL and SUGAR!! .. Let's see.. Next, I'll have the GROUND-UP flesh of CUTE, BABY LAMBS fried in the MELTED, FATTY TISSUES from a warm-blooded animal someone once PETTED!! ... YUM!! That was GOOD!! For DESSERT, I'll have a TOFU BURGER with BEAN SPROUTS on a stone-ground, WHOLE WHEAT BUN!! In-Reply-To: <20120807060157.GA13222@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2012 02:01:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > The data looks OK in user-manual.texi, but "--" is converted to "-" in > git.info. So either: > > 1. There is a bug in makeinfo, which should not be doing this > conversion inside a "@display" section. The texinfo manual says that @display does not change the font (unlike @example), so the body will be rendered like normal text apart from the extra indentation and preserved line breaks. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."