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Re: Issue 2099 in lilypond: texi2pdf --quiet hides too much


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Issue 2099 in lilypond: texi2pdf --quiet hides too much
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:20:19 +0100
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address@hidden writes:

> Comment #4 on issue 2099 by address@hidden: texi2pdf --quiet
> hides too much
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2099
>
> if it's undefined in texinfo, then why did makeinfo accept it with no
> fuss?

> Anyway, in this case I would rather use @verbatim.  Bash prompts are
> complicated enough as they are; I don't want some poor documentation
> editor in a few years from now copying the version from the source and
> trying to figure out why that bash prompt doesn't work for him.

As if a double @@ in the prompt would be hard to diagnose.

> And chances are that anybody working on that part of the documentation
> will *not* be familiar with bash, or even texinfo.

There is no point to trying to avoid using Texinfo in a Texinfo document
for the sake of people who would like to avoid Texinfo.

You can't copy&paste Lilypond examples either without changing @{ and @}
back.

-- 
David Kastrup




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