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Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info
Date: 04 Jun 2003 23:54:22 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> |> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> |> > Meanwhile, Emacs already modifies the Info buffer for display, so
> |> > instead of making that text invisible, perhaps it should delete the
> |> > text and put the information from it into text properties of the menu
> |> > item names.
> |> 
> |> That would solve a lot of minor problems the current method causes, and
> |> generally be more robust, I think.  Are there any downsides to doing it
> |> that way?
> 
> While we are at it we should refrain from refilling paragraphs, because
> that frequently messes up the formatting in a way such that the result is
> misleading or difficult to read.

TeXinfo has provisions for tables and preformatted code.  Normal text
should be reflown to fit the window width, and it is done in the
standalone info generation, too.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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