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Re: protection of space inside @w is wrong
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: protection of space inside @w is wrong |
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Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:53:10 +0000 |
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:37:10PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I've got code written for this (at bottom of mail). However, since this
> > is quite a major change to what @w does, and stems from confusion and/or
> > disagreement about the purpose of @w, and since it is does not appear to
> > be causing any problems for anybody at the moment, I propose that this
> > change (and any others for @samp, @code etc.) be delayed until after the
> > Texinfo 7.0 release.
>
> I agree that it should be delayed, I would not be surprised if users
> were assuming that spaces are kept as is in Info in @w. I checked the
> manual, nothing is explicitely said about double spaces in @w. To me
> keeping all spaces in @w seemed in line with the description, but it
> could also be otherwise as you propose in the patch (something similar
> would need to be done for HTML).
The code I posted previously wasn't correct as it didn't deal with
sentence endings. I've committed changes to change the Info/plaintext
output. I will work on the HTML output in future days.
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