Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

2016-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On 2 July 2016 at 21:01, Robert Weiner wrote: > I haven't figured it out. Do you have a solution that you could show > me, fully written out. I think this is expert-level stuff. > > Bob @ifnotinfo @macro Keyseq {arg} @kbd{@{\arg\@}} @end macro @end ifnotinfo @ifinfo @macro Keyseq

Re: [help-texinfo] Is it possible to make a Texinfo cross-reference to an index item?

2016-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On 1 July 2016 at 23:01, Robert Weiner wrote: > Say I have a 10 line table and I make an index entry for each line in the > table. > Then elsewhere in the manual, I want to provide a cross-reference to > an item in the table (not just the section that the item is in)? Is > this

Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

2016-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On 28 June 2016 at 20:41, Robert Weiner wrote: >>> or you could use @kbd itself in its definition. > > > From my .pdf reader, it looks like @kbd and @code use slightly different > faces. If that is the case, then we don't yet have a macro that would work. In case you hadn't

Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

2016-07-02 Thread Robert Weiner
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > @ifnotinfo > @macro Keyseq {arg} > @kbd{@{\arg\@}} > @end macro > @end ifnotinfo > @ifinfo > @macro Keyseq {arg} > @t{@{\arg\@}} > @end macro > @end ifinfo Thank you. This produces braces as desired in .pdf, .html

Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

2016-07-02 Thread Karl Berry
I'd just like to mention that your preferred convention of surrounding key sequences with braces is perfectly reasonable on its own, but it's unlike any other GNU Emacs (or GNU in general) documentation. (Which is why Texinfo doesn't support it directly.) If hyperbole users are most likely not

Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

2016-07-02 Thread Robert Weiner
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > On 28 June 2016 at 20:41, Robert Weiner wrote: or you could use @kbd itself in its definition. >> >> >> From my .pdf reader, it looks like @kbd and @code use slightly different >> faces. If that is