Re: more M4sh documentation

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> I checked the texinfo manuals in the project `texinfo' itself.
> They use plain `etc.' as we do, so I think we shouldn't try to be more
> saint than the pope.

"etc." doesn't need special handling when it at the end of a sentence,
which is always the case in the texinfo manuals.

However, "etc." does need special texinfo handling in some cases,
i.e., when it is not at the end of a sentence and is not followed by
another symbol like ",".  The Autoconf manual already treats "etc."
specially in these cases, and we should keep it that way.

As far as I could tell this issue doesn't affect the proposed patch,
since it treated 'etc.' correctly.