Re: Patch for makeinfo.1

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:38:30PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> help2man be enhanced to give the right results?

one question first: makeinfo --help contains:

      --footnote-style=STYLE  output footnotes in Info according to STYLE:
                                `separate' to put them in their own node;
                                `end' to put them at the end of the node
                                  in which they are defined (default).

It looks as if the different indentation of the last line were intentional.

But if I compare it to

      --paragraph-indent=VAL  indent Info paragraphs by VAL spaces (default 3).
                                If VAL is `none', do not indent; if VAL is
                                `asis', preserve existing indentation.

it seems that we should treat the two possible values in a paragraph, not
in a list.  So we could do this:

      --footnote-style=STYLE  output footnotes in Info according to STYLE:
                                `separate' to put them in their own node;
                                `end' to put them at the end of the node in
                                which they are defined (default).

As soon as the last line has the same indentation as the previous two,
help2man starts to work.

So I think I should fix this option this way.  Would you agree?

Stepan