Re: HTML bugs revisited

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Not really a bug IMHO: it happens because you want to disable all
> the features of the @def... commands except one: the fact that they
> flush the Function (or Escape, or Macro, or whatever) thing all the
> way to the right.  I think such tweaking goes well beyond the
> limitations of the Texinfo language, as designed and implemented.
> (I'm actually surprised that it works as well as it does, since
> macros in @def... commands are generally not supported.)

We are all busy people, and noone has time to really improve it, so
I'm stretching texinfo to its limits.  And it is worth the effort
since I finally get what I want.

> > TeX handles the brackets specially, making them upright.
>
> Well, you didn't send me the macro definitions for the TeX case,

They are the same.

> Karl, is this due to some special handling of the brackets coded in
> texinfo.tex?

Yes.  An undocumented feature, as Karl has already answered a longer
time ago.  Due to its ugliness, he doesn't want to document it :-)

`[' and `]' expand to @lbrb and @rbrb in @deffn, respectively; these
are bold upright brackets -- I have to correct myself.  I wrote:

>   <b><tt>.SM</tt></b><i> [text]
>   </i>
>
> It should be
>
>   <b><tt>.SM<//t></b> [<i>text</i>]

Instead, it should be

  <b><tt>.SM</tt></b><i> </i>[<i>text</i>]<i>
  </i>

or

  <b><tt>.SM</tt></b><i> </i><b>[</b><i>text</i><b>]</b><i>
  </i>

depending on whether we want to have bold brackets for HTML also.

On the other hand, @lbrack and @rbrack shouldn't have this behaviour.


    Werner