Re: formatting of @sc in HTML

[Arsen Arsenović]

Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a collection of about 200 Texinfo manuals that I scraped in
> January 2021, so I thought it was worth seeing how @sc was used in
> practice.
>
> It is pretty common to use @sc with a lower case argument where the
> argument is intended to be in upper case.  Some examples:
>
> @sc{gnu}, @sc{ascii}, @sc{posix}, @sc{unix}, @sc{ip}, @sc{c}, @sc{gif}
>
> I'm attaching a slightly edited result of 'grep @sc . -R' in
> my dump directory.
>
> If it was just people's surnames, then it would be okay to use CSS,
> as the output would be acceptable without CSS, but we do not want
> to rely on CSS for acceptable output.
>
> Hence, although using CSS is a nice idea and would be what we would
> want to use if it were always available, it cannot be justified to
> break these usages for browsers that do not use it.

Ah, this and Eli's note (about @sc expecting lowercase) pose a strong
argument for keeping uppercasing logic inside the HTML generator then.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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