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bug#23798: 25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23798: 25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info? |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:09:37 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 23:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 23798@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > C-h i h n
> > > Why are there underscores surrounding the text "please don't"?
> >
> > That's how Info renders @emph.
> >
> > > They don't cause that text to be rendered any differently. Emacs has
> > > had faces for quite some time now. Why not use a specific face for
> > > this? Is this vestigial? Does it really serve a purpose?
> >
> > Because no one wrote code to implement that.
>
> Then please consider this report as an enhancement request for that.
>
> Below is a patch for one simple possibility. It uses face `info-emphasis'
> to highlight emphasized single words, such as _foobar_.
Thanks.
> Is there any other kind of emphasis that is used?
Yes, there's @strong, rendered as *foo*.