> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 20:36:49 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr>
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
>
> > > For @sc, any letters are capitalized.
> > >
> > > I'd like to change that for 3 reasons
> > > * what capitalization means could differ for locales
> >
> > Not for ASCII characters, right?
>
> Probably not, but this rule applies to any character.
Yes, but how likely is it that @sc will be used for non-ASCII text?
Did you ever see such usage?
> > > * how this capitalization applies to @sc arguments is not well defined
> >
> > You mean, what happens with upper-case characters? Or what do you
> > mean?
>
> When you have something like
> @sc{@abbr{a,b}}, should the a inside @abbr be upper-cased?
If that's the problem, then I don't think I care about those cases.
@sc exists for other uses, where the rules are much more clear and
make much more sense.
> > You are basically suggesting to make @sc a no-op in HTML output? So,
> > for example, "@sc{gnu}" will produce "gnu"? Is that reasonable?
>
> No, not at all, not for HTML output in general, only for the
> construction of <a> href targets and id for HTML cross references.
> For what is described here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Xref.html
So @sc will sometimes work and sometimes not? Is the inconsistency a
good idea?
