[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44899] generate_html: emdash hack breaks normal paragraphs

[Julien Bect]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #44899 (project octave):

Le 22/04/2015 21:03, Søren Hauberg a écrit :
> Den 22-04-2015 kl. 20:58 skrev Julien Bect:
>> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #44899 (project octave):
>>
>> I don't know exactly which makeinfo bug this hack is supposed to solve.
>>
>> My guess is that the bug has been fixed in recent makeinfo version (mine
is
>> 5.2 and, as observed by Colin, the hack doesn't seem to be doing anything
>> useful for me).
>>
>> So, it seems that we have two options here:
>>
>> 1) remove the hack completely,
>>
>> 2) or try to target it more precisely to avoid side effects.
>>
>> The latter option makes sense only if we can figure out what it is exactly
>> that this hack was supposed to fix.
>>
>> Perhaps someone with an older version of makeinfo can try to figure that
out ?
>> I'm also CC-ing Soren, who might remember something about this issue. 
> If I recall correctly, the issue appears when you have both @deftypefn and
@deftypefnx in the same help text; in this case the @detypefnx would be oddly
indented in the HTML output. That's something to look out for.
>
> Søren 

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