Re: syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/16/2010 02:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Here's the discussion when the syntax-check was added: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-03/msg00321.html > > My kneejerk reaction is that we shouldn't police GNU manuals > to remove instances of the acronym markup

Re: syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/16/2010 03:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Simon Josefsson wrote: >>> Is this something we want to fix? >> >> I'd feel better about "fixing" this if there were some explanation >> in comments for *why* avoiding @acronym{...} is a good idea. >> Karl? > > Here's the discussion

Re: syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/16/2010 02:53 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Here's the discussion when the syntax-check was added: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-03/msg00321.html My kneejerk reaction is that we shouldn't police GNU manuals to remove instances of the acronym markup. As the Texinfo manual say

Re: syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/16/2010 03:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Is this something we want to fix? > > I'd feel better about "fixing" this if there were some explanation > in comments for *why* avoiding @acronym{...} is a good idea. > Karl? Here's the discussion when the syntax-check was a

Re: syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Is this something we want to fix? I'd feel better about "fixing" this if there were some explanation in comments for *why* avoiding @acronym{...} is a good idea. Karl? > doc/parse-datetime.texi:459:@cindex beginning of time, for @acronym{POSIX} > doc/parse-datetime.texi:4

syntax-check warns on parse-datetime.texi

2010-11-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Is this something we want to fix? /Simon doc/parse-datetime.texi:459:@cindex beginning of time, for @acronym{POSIX} doc/parse-datetime.texi:460:@cindex epoch, for @acronym{POSIX} doc/parse-datetime.texi:462:an epoch---a well-defined point of time. On @acronym{GNU} and doc/parse-datetime.texi:46