Re: @value, macro and other expansion questions

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:49:14PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     but in info and --html output, the --- are preserved as-is in
>     description, menu comment lines and menu entry.
> 
> I am not that surprised about ---, due to makeinfo's implementation.
> But I am sure that @-commands are expanded in menu descriptions.  They

Sure, but that's a different issue.

> So logically, I think --- to -- translation should happen as well.  I
> see no reason for it not to.  Consider it a bug in makeinfo.

Ok, done. Among the manuals tested in texi2html there is one that relied
on this behaviour to have a good looking output, in the menu comment
line, the cvs manual has:

* History browsing::            Viewing the history of files in various ways

CVS and the Real World.
-----------------------
* Binary files::                CVS can handle binary files


With --- kept in code_style in menu comment line, The ------- line
played its role of underlining well. Now transformed into a line of
— the result is much less good-looking...

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Pat