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Re: [PATCH 2/8] maint: remove empty lines at EOF, but excluding modules/


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] maint: remove empty lines at EOF, but excluding modules/*
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:23:57 -0800
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On 01/23/2012 09:07 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> given our recent push to use '' quoting everywhere,
> should we be ditching INSTALL.ISO and make INSTALL use ''
> quoting?

Yes indeed.  I've been meaning to suggest the same thing.

> Should we be using '@set txicodequotebacktick' or similar
> markup in install.texi in order alter the preferred quoting styles to
> begin with?

That'd cause the output to look worse when run through TeX, no?
I expect it's simpler for now to leave install.texi alone.

In the longer term we need to modify makeinfo so that it quotes
'like this' rather than `like this' when generating plain
text output.  I'll send a request to address@hidden



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