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Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules |
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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:46:13 -0600 |
Sorry, I can't reply to everything in detail now (and I'll be offline
after tomorrow until next Wednesday), but here are a few notes.
1. It would be nice to have a set of address@hidden' commands for parser
I would prefer not to add any more @def commands for specialized
application. They're a big pain.
tokens (address@hidden') and one for non-teminals (address@hidden') and add
the
entries by hand, so the entries in the Variable Index are redundant.
Maybe redirect the vr index to pn, then, and omit the explicit pn entries.
I highly recommend redirecting all indexes into one in the end, anyway.
This works fine, except that it doesn't work for the first item in the
Well, that's a bug, but it seems like an awful lot of trouble. How
about simply using @var? That's what it's intended for. Maybe we
should invent a formatting option that says whether or not @var should
use angle brackets, or a second command (say, @metavar) that does have
angle brackets. Or maybe just forget the angle brackets, even though I
know they are highly traditional in parser descriptions.
it's not possible to use `@ ' in an index entry.
What happens? I don't know of any explicit restriction.
Some of the address@hidden' lines are also very long, and I think `makeinfo'
at least will fail if they're broken.
@node commands definitely have to be on one line. But do you really
have individual node names that are longer than 70 chars or so? Yikes.
karl
- [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/23
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/25
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, Karl Berry, 2007/01/25
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, Karl Berry, 2007/01/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, Karl Berry, 2007/01/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, lfinsto1, 2007/01/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] Formatting parser symbols and rules, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/26