Re: @value, macro and other expansion questions

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:59:10PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I thought a bit about whether the remaining of the  menus should 
>     be in code_style or not
> 
> I'm not sure if this is your question, but the description part of a
> menu entry (or continuation lines) is definitely not in code_style.  It

Ok, I got it wrong.

> is documented (I hope) and expected that normal text expansions happen
> there; e.g., if someone writes --- in a menu description, HTML output
> should use —.  Ergo Info output would be --.

Nothing is said about that in the manual.

> Clearly leading spaces and spaces between the menu node name and the
> description need to preserved in Info and plain text output, and they
> should be ignored in HTML since they won't actually make anything align.
> As for XML, that should be the usual XML translation of the source,
> which I think it already is?  The spaces should be ignored there, I suppose.
> 
>     although it is not always easy to know when one is in a menu comment,
> 
> What is a menu comment?

In 
    @menu
     Larger Units of Text

     * Files::                       All about handling files.
     * Multiples: Buffers.           Multiple buffers; editing
                                      several files at once.
     @end menu



`Larger Units of Text'
is a menu comment line. 

But since descriptions are not in code_style, I think that menu comment
line should not be in code_style either.

What about the menu entry name? code_style or not?

--
Pat