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Re: `defun` and punctuation marks
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: `defun` and punctuation marks |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:08:45 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 06:34:52AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> [texinfo.tex 2021-04-25.21]
>
> Have a look at the following example.
>
> ```
> \input texinfo.tex
>
> @defun foo bar? bar bar
> text
> @end defun
>
> @defun foo bar?@: bar bar
> text
> @end defun
>
> @bye
> ```
>
> As can be seen, the space after the question mark is larger in the
> first example, which is not appropriate here.
>
> Some Lisp dialects like Scheme use question and exclamation marks
> extensively in function and argument names, so this is a real issue.
> In particular, LilyPond's Scheme functions are full of it :-)
>
Well spotted, I can hardly see the difference. It should be fixed in
commit 3cd56e4c8dbe0. Please check if this solves the problem.