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
> 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 --.

My tests show that it is not the case. --xml output does what you say,
but in info and --html output, the --- are preserved as-is in
description, menu comment lines and menu entry.

You can use the attached file to test. Anyway we can consider that 
the makeinfo --xml output is the right one.

--
Pat

code_space.texi
Description: TeXInfo document