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bug#13358: removing @acronym from manual
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#13358: removing @acronym from manual |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:39:39 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:33:13 GMT
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
>
> Didn't we conclude it was better to avoid @acronym and the consequent
> ugly rendering in browsers? (Except in cases where it's actually
> useful, which is never in the coreutils manual.)
>
> I'm sure we did so for @sc. Unfortunately I cannot separate patches for
> @sc and @acronym since they are often used in the same text.
I was led to this bug report from
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-01/msg00058.html.
Could you please re-iterate why @sc and @acronym should be avoided, or
point to a discussion where those reasons are spelled out? At least
the latest Texinfo documentation (from the 4.13.93 pretest) says
nothing about that; if avoiding these is an official GNU guideline,
IMO the Texinfo manual should mention that, and tell why.
E.g., why @sc{gnu} or @sc{posix} or @acronym{ASCII} are bad?
TIA