HTML output for @quotation + @author

[Mahlon]

20 Nov 2014

RE: HTML output for @quotation + @author commands

VERSION: makeinfo 5.2 (built from source on Fedora 20 x86_64)

BUG:

There are two issues for the HTML output when using the @author command within a @quotation:

1) A blank line is generated between the quotation itself and the author's name. This extra line is not present in the info output.

2) The author's name (and the emdash) are centered on the page. This mirrors the info output, but the author's name looks isolated (lonely?) in the HTML output, especially for a short quotation, because the name may be considerably beyond the quotation itself.

For the following source:

@quotation

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

@author Benjamin Franklin

@end quotation

currently, the HTML looks like this:

<blockquote>

<p>&quot;A penny saved is a penny earned.&quot;

</p></blockquote>

<div align="center">&mdash; <em>Benjamin Franklin</em>

</div>

Logically, the 'author' output should be inside the <blockquote><p>, thus eliminating the extra blank line and beautifying the horizontal alignment. For example:

<blockquote>

<p>&quot;A penny saved is a penny earned.&quot;<br>

<span style="margin-left:3.2em">&mdash; <em>Benjamin Franklin</em></span>

</p></blockquote>

Note that the '3.2em' indentation is used in the above example because it agrees with all the other indentations generated by the texi-to-HTML converter. Note also that depending on where the last line of the word-wrrapped quotation naturally ends, the <br> might generate an extra blank line anyway, but I don't think we can do anything about that...

Cheers,
Mahlon

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