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commit 01ebfdb5cbe0ddea0f088ba2b0cae0db085e7fb3
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 14 17:01:28 2022 +0100

    * doc/texinfo.texi (Optional Arguments): State that this is
    "one convention" to leave open possibility that there may
    be others.
---
 ChangeLog        | 6 ++++++
 doc/texinfo.texi | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c3d36b5954..5882bdd7b3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-08-14  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * doc/texinfo.texi (Optional Arguments): State that this is
+       "one convention" to leave open possibility that there may
+       be others.
+
 2022-08-14  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>
 
        * doc/texinfo.texi (Typed Functions): add = in Perl Sub example.
diff --git a/doc/texinfo.texi b/doc/texinfo.texi
index 2b0606029c..9422cc8249 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo.texi
@@ -11497,8 +11497,8 @@ character (space, tab, newline) produces a normal 
interword space
 @cindex Meta-syntactic chars for arguments
 
 @c This is consistent with the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
-Some entities take optional or repeated arguments, conventionally
-specified by using square brackets and ellipses: an argument enclosed
+Some entities take optional or repeated arguments.  One convention for
+indicating these uses square brackets and ellipses: an argument enclosed
 within square brackets is optional, and an argument followed by an
 ellipsis is optional and may be repeated more than once.