Re: @deftypefn PDF font issue with brackets and parentheses

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-11-16 23:22:27 +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > The square brackets can also be used to mark optional arguments in
> > other programming languages, so it may not be better to change the
> > font for these.
> 
> Since C (including C++) is very common (and its prototype formats
> is used for library interfaces), I think that it would be worth to
> define new commands for it.
> 
> > You can get the regular monospace font with @t:
> > 
> > @deftypefun  int f (char *t@t{[]})
> 
> Unfortunately this hack is broken, because in HTML, it is rendered
> as <tt>[]</tt>, while with @deftypefn, *all* the argument part is
> written without tt and with em (thus in italics). So this makes the
> HTML output inconsistent. However, the issue is rather that tt is
> not used at all with @deftypefn in HTML. IMHO, the style for HTML
> output should be aligned with TeX output, where tt is used.

Have you tested this with Texinfo 7.0 or with the latest development
version?  The font for HTML output for @deftypefn should be in the tt
style and this was a recent change following lengthy discussion on
this list.