On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:45:54PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 07:44:33PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I don't agree with changing the language to require braces. There is
> > not a good reason to change it. Although writing "@itemize @bullet{}"
> > may be more regular than "@itemize @bullet", it is a core and stable
> > part of the Texinfo lanugage, regardless of which one you might prefer.
>
> It is not about which one I prefer, it is about consistency and
> simplicity of the language.
Even so, it is not worth changing and making practically every use of
@itemize in a Texinfo manual being flagged as incorrect, in my opinion.
If you were designing a new markup language from scratch that had no
existing users it would be a different matter.
We should try to accommodate both usages as best as we can in the source
code, as well as providing error messages or warnings, even if this makes
the implementation in texi2any slightly more complicated.
