On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:59:10PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> I thought a bit about whether the remaining of the menus should
> be in code_style or not
>
> I'm not sure if this is your question, but the description part of a
> menu entry (or continuation lines) is definitely not in code_style. It
Ok, I got it wrong.
> is documented (I hope) and expected that normal text expansions happen
> there; e.g., if someone writes --- in a menu description, HTML output
> should use —. Ergo Info output would be --.
Nothing is said about that in the manual.
> Clearly leading spaces and spaces between the menu node name and the
> description need to preserved in Info and plain text output, and they
> should be ignored in HTML since they won't actually make anything align.
> As for XML, that should be the usual XML translation of the source,
> which I think it already is? The spaces should be ignored there, I suppose.
>
> although it is not always easy to know when one is in a menu comment,
>
> What is a menu comment?
In
@menu
Larger Units of Text
* Files:: All about handling files.
* Multiples: Buffers. Multiple buffers; editing
several files at once.
@end menu
`Larger Units of Text'
is a menu comment line.
But since descriptions are not in code_style, I think that menu comment
line should not be in code_style either.
What about the menu entry name? code_style or not?
--
Pat
