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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: mofaph <mofaph@gmail.com>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: info: display '--' as '-'
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:29:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lihrxfzn.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120807060157.GA13222@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2012 02:01:57 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-07  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-06  3:08 info: display '--' as '-' mofaph
2012-08-07  6:01 ` Jeff King
2012-08-07  7:17   ` David Kastrup
2012-08-07 19:42     ` Jeff King
2012-08-07 20:07       ` [PATCH] docs: monospace listings in docbook output Jeff King
2012-08-07  8:29   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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