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Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup? |
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Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:29:24 +0100 |
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Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès (2017-03-15 17:14 +0100) wrote:
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>> Hi Alex,
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>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
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>>> Hello, I've noticed that several packages contain "@code" structures in
>>> their synopses, but only 'description' field supports texinfo markup.
>>> For example, look at:
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>>> guix package -s ruby-minitest-bonus-assertions
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>>> So I wonder, should these synopses be adjusted to remove @code things,
>>> or would it be better to make sysnopses support it?
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>> Maybe we should support Texinfo in synopses after all. I don’t think
>> there were good reasons not to do it.
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>> Thoughts?
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> I'm not aware of potential problems so I think it would be good to add
> this support to synopses.
Cool. Would you or anyone like to give it a try? Alternatively we can
mail it to bug-guix for later.
Ludo’.