On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:49:14PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > but in info and --html output, the --- are preserved as-is in > description, menu comment lines and menu entry. > > I am not that surprised about ---, due to makeinfo's implementation. > But I am sure that @-commands are expanded in menu descriptions. They
Sure, but that's a different issue. > So logically, I think --- to -- translation should happen as well. I > see no reason for it not to. Consider it a bug in makeinfo. Ok, done. Among the manuals tested in texi2html there is one that relied on this behaviour to have a good looking output, in the menu comment line, the cvs manual has: * History browsing:: Viewing the history of files in various ways CVS and the Real World. ----------------------- * Binary files:: CVS can handle binary files With --- kept in code_style in menu comment line, The ------- line played its role of underlining well. Now transformed into a line of — the result is much less good-looking... -- Pat
