Re: (info-stnd) search.c:regexp_search() finishes too early

2014-02-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > Thanks a lot for the report and the testcase. I have fixed the bug > in the repository. For your convenience, the patch is attached. > Please let me know if it works for you. > > Regards, > Sergey > I am having some problem

Re: @url doesn't work correctly within @raggedright environment

2014-02-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Namely (for the record), the potential stretchiness around the special > characters in the url still had effect. > > I made the diff below, which seemed to fix this case. I don't need to test that to know that it's the right fix :-) Thanks! Werner

Re: @url doesn't work correctly within @raggedright environment

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Werner, +@raggedright POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.html} ... and `make gnulib.pdf' produced a result as shown in the attached image... Namely (for the record), the potential stretchin

Re: texinfo to docbook - enhancement request

2014-02-06 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 07:11:08PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Arnold, > > @cindex main topic, secondary point, tertiary point > ... > main topicsecondary > pointtertiary > point > > Anyway, as a workaround for your immediate needs, maybe Patrice can > point you to a hoo

Re: texinfo to docbook conversion - @r{} is not

2014-02-06 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:32:05PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > But there is no reason why @r{} would only be used like that, > > Sure, agreed. (I don't believe I said there was; I was merely > explaining why it had been done, incorrect thinking as it may have > been.) > > If we really wa

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > that is, not output encoding - > > Good. > > I would think that we should leave files as they are if we don't > know their encoding - that way we don't risk breaking something that > works already. > > Right. So wha

Re: texinfo to docbook - enhancement request

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Arnold, @cindex main topic, secondary point, tertiary point ... main topicsecondary pointtertiary point Well, as you know, support for the usual index features has been on the todo list forever. I can't imagine having the time and energy to deal with them in the fore

Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Gavin, that is, not output encoding - Good. I would think that we should leave files as they are if we don't know their encoding - that way we don't risk breaking something that works already. Right. So what do you mean by "the default file encoding is set to UTF-8"? What d

Re: texinfo to docbook conversion - @r{} is not

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
But there is no reason why @r{} would only be used like that, Sure, agreed. (I don't believe I said there was; I was merely explaining why it had been done, incorrect thinking as it may have been.) If we really want something like [lineannotation] As far as I'm concerned, we don't, bar

@url doesn't work correctly within @raggedright environment

2014-02-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I've tried to apply this patch to gnulib's git repository: diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.texi b/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.texi index 772093a..a0e583b 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.texi +++ b/do

Re: Typos in txirefcard.tex

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
please find attached a patch that corrects two spelling mistakes in txirefcard.tex. Thanks! Will install for the next release. Best, Karl

Re: Warn about invalid index entries

2014-02-06 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:37:27PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > PS Maybe consider adding a --strict flag or somesuch, which will warn > about "things that are invalid but which are normally silently > accepted for historical reasons"... > > I'm not a fan of generic options

Re: Warn about invalid index entries

2014-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Glenn, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-08/msg9.html -all-over-againly, Basically :(. (For example, I have just discovered that about 1% of index entries in the Emacs manuals are useless because of this reason.) They don't work as they should in Info,