Eric Blake wrote:
> Would it perhaps be worth rendering this as:
>
> _("`Servname' not supported for `ai_socktype'")
>
> further emphasizing the literalness of the parameter names?
IMO, this goes against the sense of quotes: Quoting usually highlights
a literal value, not a variable name. If a function
chdir (directory)
is called as
chdir ("%HOME%")
then the error message should be
invalid directory: '%HOME%'
not invalid directory: %HOME%
nor invalid 'directory': '%HOME%'
The literal part should be quoted, so that its extent becomes clear despite
special characters or possibly spaces. The variable - here 'directory' - should
not be quoted because the literal string "directory" does not appear in the
compiled program.
For this same reason, makeinfo renders @code{x} as `x' but not @var{x}.
Bruno
