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Re: an introduction to gnulib
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Eric Blake |
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Re: an introduction to gnulib |
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:28:04 -0600 |
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According to Bruno Haible on 10/24/2006 6:19 AM:
>> +glibc--examples: @samp{getopt}, @samp{fnmatch}---and often new
>> +APIs---for example, for all functions that allocate memory in one way
>> +or the other, we have variants which also include the error checking
>> +against the out-of-memory condition.
>
> I don't like the omission of spaces here. It looks like a single word
> 'glibc--examples' and a single word 'APIs---for'. I add back these spaces.
But texinfo documents that using '---' without surrounding spaces is the
correct way to typeset an mdash, which is exactly the punctuation you want
here. It may look ugly in texinfo sources, but it looks wrong the way you
did it by readding spaces when you go to dvi or pdf.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- an introduction to gnulib, Bruno Haible, 2006/10/23
- Re: an introduction to gnulib, Karl Berry, 2006/10/23
- Re: an introduction to gnulib, Bruno Haible, 2006/10/24
- Re: an introduction to gnulib,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: texinfo, dashes, Bruno Haible, 2006/10/24
- Re: texinfo, dashes, Karl Berry, 2006/10/24
- Re: texinfo, dashes, Bruno Haible, 2006/10/25
- Re: an introduction to gnulib, Bob Proulx, 2006/10/24