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bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:56:18 -0700 (PDT) |
> > Maybe Emacs needs to work around the problem (if it can't be
> > fixed). Maybe if Emacs uses `. . .' instead of `...' that
> > will stop Texinfo from messing with it.
> >
> > (Why would Texinfo have a blanket treatment of ... as …?
> > That makes no sense at all. What if the occurrence of ...
> > is part of code, and NEEDS to be 3 period chars?)
>
> Emacs' .texi files use @dots{} in these cases, as (strongly)
> recommended by the texinfo manual:
>
> An ellipsis (a sequence of dots) would be spaced wrong when typeset as
> a string of periods, so a special command is used in Texinfo: use the
> @dots{} command to generate a normal ellipsis, which is three dots in
> a row, appropriately spaced … like so. To emphasize: do not simply
> write three periods in the input file; that would work for the Info
> file output, but would produce the wrong amount of space between the
> periods in the printed manual.
>
> I found this thread [1] requesting plain "..." for @dots{} in makeinfo
> output; there seemed to be no opposition, but I guess it didn't
> happen. Perhaps try pinging bug-texinfo@gnu.org?
Thanks for checking on this, Noam. I will leave it to Emacs
maintainers to decide whether to ping bug-texinfo. I reported
the complaint as one Emacs user. Dunno what Emacs Dev will
decide is the desired behavior. I know what I prefer.