Re: texinfo, dashes

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Indeed, spaces around dashes is an American/European difference.
> ...
> However, nothing else in Texinfo documents in general, or the Gnulib
> document in particular, is typeset in European style, as far as I can
> see, so the spaces seem out of place to me.

But when I sit down for two hours to write a doc chapter, I want to have it
presented in a style that I find aesthetic.

>     If you consider it important to emphasize that "GNU is not Unix", 
> 
> I don't, but rms does.  He's made a point of it several times.

The fact is that nowadays, with Ulrich Drepper and Paul being active in POSIX
standardization, GNU has becoming one of the driving forces in POSIX
development. Likewise, X11 technology gets its major push by Linux users,
which - according to RMS - are also part of GNU. (Although I doubt that
Keith Packard would consider himself a GNU user.)

> I changed it to "GNU, Unix, and Windows".  GNU first because it's a GNU
> manual, and I can't see why they should be listed chronologically, or
> that any reader would make the connection if they were.

That's fine with me.

Bruno