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Re: info invisible changes
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: info invisible changes |
Date: |
06 Nov 2002 13:46:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > > (1) The dir file (and presumably other info menus) I have was
> > > formatted assuming that no text would be hidden, so in some cases,
> > > the invisible text results in a very wierd looking display.
> >
> > > * CVS client/server Describes the
> > > client/server protocol
> > > used by CVS.
> >
> > I have added code to properly align (+2 spaces) the following description
> > lines. Please try it out.
>
> Hmmm, well it looks _less_ bad: now the text is all in a properly-
> indented, but absurdly narrow column.
Weren't they in an absurdly narrow column already ? ;-)
>
> I agree with Stefan that the text should be refilled in the top-level
> dir node -- it's special because it contains much more hidden text than
> a normal node, and looks especially bad without refilling, and also it's
> not connected with a file (it's generated), so it's safe to modify.
Yes, I'll see what I can do to improve this.
>
> Morever, the format of the menu entries seems regular enough that
> finding the bounds required to fill/reindent; something like
>
> (goto-char START-OF-MENU-ENTRY-TEXT)
> (forward-sentence)
> (while (looking-at ".*\n[ \t]+[^ \t]")
> (forward-sentence))
> ;; point is now at END-OF-MENU-ENTRY-TEXT
>
> seems to work alright.
>
Maybe. If you send me some misc dir files which have particular problems,
I can probably do a better job at getting this right.
>
> BTW, another wierd case I found is that sometimes footnotes are
> followed by a newline and a then period (when obviously there should be
> just a period). For instance, in `(emacs)Glossary', I see:
>
> --- begin quote ---
> Aborting
> Aborting means getting out of a recursive edit (q.v.). The
> commands `C-]' and `M-x top-level' are used for this. See Quitting
> .
> --- end quote ---
So I need to massage the *note regexp even further it seems...
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- info invisible changes, Miles Bader, 2002/11/01
- Message not available
- Re: info invisible changes, Stefan Monnier, 2002/11/06
- Re: info invisible changes, Miles Bader, 2002/11/06
- Re: info invisible changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/11/07
- Re: info invisible changes, Kim F. Storm, 2002/11/12
- Re: info invisible changes, Miles Bader, 2002/11/12
- Re: info invisible changes, Kim F. Storm, 2002/11/12
- Re: info invisible changes, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/11/12
- Re: info invisible changes, Kim F. Storm, 2002/11/13
- Re: info invisible changes, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/11/13