Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

[John Mandereau]

Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 14:59 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit :
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:31:05 +0200
> John Mandereau <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry to give higher priority to technical aspects, but references
> > must be followed by punctuation in Info format, so please keep periods
> > at the end of all lists ending with a @ref, even singleton lists.
> 
> I'm not at all sorry to give higher priority to technical aspects,
> but are you sure about this?  I just tried it, and info didn't
> complain.

Section 8.6 @ref in Texinfo 4.11 manual says @ref must be followed by
punctuation because it's a limitation of Info file format, but a quick
test shows that this limitation has already been eliminated in both
makeinfo and Info readers (Emacs and info standalone).

Well, that's good news, you can do the way you want in English.  In
French and in Spanish, we'll stick with one period at the end of all
lists; I'm tempted to do the same thing in English, but my opinion is
definitely not valuable when it comes to English grammar :-p.

Cheers,
John