Re: info invisible changes

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > >   (1) The dir file (and presumably other info menus) I have was
> > >       formatted assuming that no text would be hidden, so in some cases,
> > >       the invisible text results in a very wierd looking display.
> > 
> > > * CVS client/server     Describes the
> > >                                                client/server protocol
> > >                                                used by CVS.
> > 
> > I have added code to properly align (+2 spaces) the following description
> > lines.  Please try it out.
> 
> Hmmm, well it looks _less_ bad: now the text is all in a properly-
> indented, but absurdly narrow column.

Weren't they in an absurdly narrow column already ?  ;-)


> 
> I agree with Stefan that the text should be refilled in the top-level
> dir node -- it's special because it contains much more hidden text than
> a normal node, and looks especially bad without refilling, and also it's
> not connected with a file (it's generated), so it's safe to modify.

Yes, I'll see what I can do to improve this.

> 
> Morever, the format of the menu entries seems regular enough that
> finding the bounds required to fill/reindent; something like
> 
>   (goto-char START-OF-MENU-ENTRY-TEXT)
>   (forward-sentence)
>   (while (looking-at ".*\n[ \t]+[^ \t]")
>     (forward-sentence))
>   ;; point is now at END-OF-MENU-ENTRY-TEXT
> 
> seems to work alright.
> 
Maybe.  If you send me some misc dir files which have particular problems,
I can probably do a better job at getting this right.
> 
> BTW, another wierd case I found is that sometimes footnotes are
> followed by a newline and a then period (when obviously there should be
> just a period).  For instance, in `(emacs)Glossary', I see:
> 
> --- begin quote ---
> Aborting
>      Aborting means getting out of a recursive edit (q.v.).  The
>      commands `C-]' and `M-x top-level' are used for this.  See Quitting
> .
> ---  end quote  ---

So I need to massage the *note regexp even further it seems...

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