Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Karl Berry
These "features" can be turned off with a flip of a variable or two. Please elucidate. That is not even remotely close to my experience. As you may recall from my various emacs bug reports over the last few years, I have spent many, many hours trying to turn off Emacs's newfangled colorizati

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:26 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:21:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > OK, but then what exactly did you mean to convey by saying that the > > format is implicitly left to right? Text is always stored in a file > > in the logical

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:21:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > OK, but then what exactly did you mean to convey by saying that the > format is implicitly left to right? Text is always stored in a file > in the logical left to right order, and is processed by any program in > that order. The

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:11:06 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 03:47:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0100 > > > From: Patrice Dumas > > > > > > the Info format is implicitly left to right top to bottom... > > > > No, it isn't.

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 03:47:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0100 > > From: Patrice Dumas > > > > the Info format is implicitly left to right top to bottom... > > No, it isn't. What you meant to say is that the text in an Info file > is stored in the so-ca

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:59 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas > > the Info format is implicitly left to right top to bottom... No, it isn't. What you meant to say is that the text in an Info file is stored in the so-called "logical" (a.k.a. "reading") direction. That is true; however the Info _

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:46:32PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > > A related question: how does/should makeinfo+info handle non-ascii > characters in the source? For example if I'm writing documentation > in Norwegian. Is the info output supposed to be locale-specific? > That seems in principle wr

Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'

2012-01-25 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:01:08PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote: > > A related question: how does/should makeinfo+info handle non-ascii > characters in the source? For example if I'm writing documentation > in Norwegian. Is the info output supposed to be locale-specific? > > The question