Re: @verb and @w in DocBook output

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:10:31PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> If I recall well, the idea was that even an empty @w{} would lead to
> some output such that if within a string, the string would not end eup
> contiguous in XML based outputs.  For example to avoid $Id$ keywords
> expansion that are expanded in CVS, using $I@w{}d$ would make sure that
> in the HTML output $Id$ is expanded to a string that is not considered
> special, as $I is separated from d$.

I see, I hadn't thought of that, but surely this trick is mainly useful
for Texinfo sources, not for the output, as this cannot work in Info
output.