> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:33:13 GMT > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > Didn't we conclude it was better to avoid @acronym and the consequent > ugly rendering in browsers? (Except in cases where it's actually > useful, which is never in the coreutils manual.) > > I'm sure we did so for @sc. Unfortunately I cannot separate patches for > @sc and @acronym since they are often used in the same text.
I was led to this bug report from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-01/msg00058.html. Could you please re-iterate why @sc and @acronym should be avoided, or point to a discussion where those reasons are spelled out? At least the latest Texinfo documentation (from the 4.13.93 pretest) says nothing about that; if avoiding these is an official GNU guideline, IMO the Texinfo manual should mention that, and tell why. E.g., why @sc{gnu} or @sc{posix} or @acronym{ASCII} are bad? TIA
