[5944] @c[omment] must not be followed by -

[karl]

Revision: 5944
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=texinfo&revision=5944
Author:   karl
Date:     2014-11-27 18:33:36 +0000 (Thu, 27 Nov 2014)
Log Message:
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@c[omment] must not be followed by -

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/doc/texinfo.texi

Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/ChangeLog     2014-11-27 18:27:44 UTC (rev 5943)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog     2014-11-27 18:33:36 UTC (rev 5944)
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-11-27  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>
 
+       * doc/texinfo.texi (Comments): must not be followed by -.
+       Patrice, texinfo-devel 22 Nov 2014 15:18:07.
+
        * doc/texinfo.texi (@noindent, @indent): more explicitly describe
        recommendations and current behavior.
 

Modified: trunk/doc/texinfo.texi
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/texinfo.texi      2014-11-27 18:27:44 UTC (rev 5943)
+++ trunk/doc/texinfo.texi      2014-11-27 18:33:36 UTC (rev 5944)
@@ -1380,7 +1380,10 @@
 command, which may be abbreviated to @code{@@c}.  Such comments are
 for a person looking at the Texinfo source file.  All the text on a
 line that follows either @code{@@comment} or @code{@@c} is a comment;
-the rest of the line does not appear in the visible output.
+the rest of the line does not appear in the visible output.  (To be
+precise, the character after the @code{@@c} or @code{@@comment} must
+be something other than a dash or alphanumeric, or it will be taken as
+part of the command.)
 
 Often, you can write the @code{@@comment} or @code{@@c} in the middle
 of a line, and only the text that follows after the @code{@@comment}
@@ -1401,14 +1404,13 @@
 @cindex Ignored text
 @cindex Unprocessed text
 @findex ignore
-You can also have long stretches of text to be ignored by the Texinfo
+You can also have long stretches of text ignored by the Texinfo
 processors with the @code{@@ignore} and @code{@@end ignore} commands.
 Write each of these commands on a line of its own, starting each
 command at the beginning of the line.  Text between these two commands
 does not appear in the processed output.  You can use @code{@@ignore}
-and @code{@@end ignore} for writing comments.  (For some technical
-caveats regarding nesting of such commands, @pxref{Conditional
-Nesting}.)
+and @code{@@end ignore} for writing comments.  (For some caveats
+regarding nesting of such commands, @pxref{Conditional Nesting}.)
 
 
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