bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The problem is how to highlight strings only in code samples
>> because in other places highlighting "..." makes no sense.
>> Look for example in the node (info "(emacs) Package Keywords"):
>>   Most optional features in Emacs are grouped into "packages".
>> Should "packages" be highlighted as a string.  Of course not.
>> There is no additional emphasis on quotations in books.
>
> Indeed.  The "right answer" is to move away from the Info format and
> rely on something more structured that we could render in a much more
> pretty way, using bold, italics, and friends.

Yup.  I don't think there's anything much that can be done here that
won't break other examples, so I'm closing this bug report.

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