Re: undecipherable (wrong?) text on def* arguments and --

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:36:52PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     you are saying is that it is not possible to have --, ---, `` and '' 
>     kept as is if the font do not look like a typewriter font?
> 
> Essentially, yes.

Ok.

>     Ok, I see.  What is very weird, here, is that @var{} leads to
>     typewriter, while it does not in any other context.
> 
> Agreed.  Since you brought it up, I think it would better to recomend
> @code for this strange case instead of @var, for that reason.  There's
> no noticeable difference between the slanted typewriter dash and the
> upright typewriter dash.  I'll change the manual.

Yet, having @var{} lead to slanted typewriter in @def* arguments may
still be worth documenting.  It is not that obvious since it also looks
a bit like a kludge, that may some day change, so maybe this could also 
be left untold.

-- 
Pat