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Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index) |
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Sun, 03 Jul 2016 06:42:36 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 21:39:34 GMT
> From: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
>
> I'd just like to mention that your preferred convention of surrounding
> key sequences with braces is perfectly reasonable on its own, but it's
> unlike any other GNU Emacs (or GNU in general) documentation. (Which is
> why Texinfo doesn't support it directly.)
>
> If hyperbole users are most likely not reading anything else, that's
> fine, but if they might be looking at the Emacs (or Info or ...)
> documentation, it seems like it could be rather confusing. As in
> wondering why hyperbole's key sequences are always surrounded by braces,
> does that make them different from Emacs key sequences, if they're
> supposed to type the braces, etc.
I fully agree, FWIW. Deviating from accepted standards is not a good
idea, as it will interfere with reading the manual, especially when a
manual is used as a reference, without reading all of its introductory
parts, where this notation is probably explained.
So I recommend to stick with the standard markup.
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), (continued)
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Robert Weiner, 2016/07/04
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Robert Weiner, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Robert Weiner, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Robert Weiner, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Gavin Smith, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Robert Weiner, 2016/07/05
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Gavin Smith, 2016/07/06
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index), Karl Berry, 2016/07/02
- Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index),
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