Re: @verb and @w in DocBook output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:25:59PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

I think that the idea was to be useful in as many as possible output
formats.  It cannot work in Info or plaintext in any case.

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Pat