Re: @verb and @w in DocBook output

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:10:31PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:01:41PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I've checked the important output formats (texinfo.tex, HTML, Info, DocBook,
> > LaTeX) and it seems that there isn't much more to be done on either @w or
> > @verb to get consistency across the output formats.
> > 
> > The main thing I found was that that not much is done with @w in DocBook
> > output.  The input
> > 
> > xx @verb{|a a  a
> > b|} xx
> > 
> > yy @w{|A A  A
> > B|} yy
> > 
> > currently outputs as
> > 
> > <para>xx <literal>a a  a
> > b</literal> xx
> > </para>
> > <para>yy |A A  A
> > B|<!-- /@w --> yy
> > </para>
> > 
> > Are there any thoughts on the change at the bottom of this mail?
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 

The following came up in the test suite changes:

  in&#160;@w&#160;<emphasis&#160;role="bold">b</emphasis><!-- /@w -->

i.e. the search and replace also took place inside tags, which is wrong.

I guess some kind of formatting stack is needed which is referred to
inside _protect_text or the conditional at the start of _convert handling
element text.