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Article #1087Problems with TABs and makeinfo
From: Francois Pinard
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:30
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:30
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This pertains to makeinfo version 1.47, as distributed within the Texinfo 2.15 package. It was compiled with GNU C 1.41 under COFF encapsulation on this 386/ix 2.0.2 system (waiting for Hurd :-). My suggestion is that makeinfo should logically `expand' its input. Here is an example of what I consider a misbehaviour. First, the input file x.texinfo. Note that there is a TAB between the two sentences. This will happen quite naturally in GNU Emacs if you have the (good :-) habit of typing two spaces after an end of sentence period, than later M-x tabify the whole buffer: ----------------------------------------------------------------------> @setfilename x.info @node Top @top Here a phrase. Here another. ----------------------------------------------------------------------< Then, the produced x.info file. With some luck, the mail systems will not destroy the tabs and you will see the awkward looking result: ----------------------------------------------------------------------> This is Info file x.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.47 from the input file /tmp/x.texinfo. ^_ File: x.info, Node: Top Here a phrase. Here another. ^_ Tag Table: Node: Top90 ^_ End Tag Table ----------------------------------------------------------------------< -- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (514) 588-4656 ...!uunet!iros1!pinard About the League for Programming Freedom? Email me or lpf@uunet.uu.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!icule.UUCP!pinard From: pinard@icule.UUCP (Francois Pinard) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Problems with TABs and makeinfo Message-ID: <9211120330.AA03108@icule.UUCP> Date: 12 Nov 92 03:30:39 GMT Article-I.D.: icule.9211120330.AA03108 Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 46 Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu