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Re: Changes to windows.texi


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Changes to windows.texi
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:07:53 +0200

> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:54:09 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
>  >> Here makeinfo (GNU texinfo - 4.8) does not capitalize the S for @xref,
>  >> so I was not aware of any such a problem.  Or does it capitalize them
>  >> only in the printed manual?
>  >
>  > It should capitalize them everywhere.  Are you sure it doesn't for
>  > you?  Not even at the beginning of a sentence?
> 
> Only at the beginning of a sentence.  Anywhere else it does _not_
> capitalize them.  But maybe Emacs' Info is more clever here than the
> stand-alone reader?

I think that's because Emacs produces "see" from the "*Note" part when
it displays the Info file.  Look at the Info file literally, and you
will see a capitalized "*Note" in a middle of a sentence.

>  > I think it's a convention to have the first paragraph of a section not
>  > to be indented, and indent all the others, although the manual is not
>  > always consistent in this.
> 
> It seems to me that more often the first paragraph is indented and the
> remaining ones aren't.

I think this is a mistake, but let's see what Richard says.

>  > What makeinfo does is controlled by @firstparagraphindent and
>  > @paragraphindent.
> 
> Shouldn't `fill-paragraph' be able to DTRT then?

You mean, in Texinfo Mode? maybe.




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