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Re: [bug-recutils] [bug #41602] doc: @kbd for long option names


From: Jose E. Marchesi
Subject: Re: [bug-recutils] [bug #41602] doc: @kbd for long option names
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:57:32 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

    I didn't include it in my patch because it seemed too invasive, but I think
    using @kbd for long option names in the summaries is bad.  For one thing, 
you
    don't use it for single-character names.  For another, those simply are not
    keyboard input, so it's semantically wrong.  For a third, it creates a 
visual
    ambiguity between option names and meta-variables, as in
    @address@hidden  For a fourth, you don't do it
    
    Please consider removing all those spurious-IMHO @kbd's.

    The @w{...} at the beginning of an @item also seems senseless, but at least
    that is harmless.
    
Hm, I am so used to see that way of documenting the long option names in
the coreutils manual that I used it without thinking... does this mean
that the markup in the coreutils manual is also senseless?



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