Re: Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Phil Holmes" To: ; "David Kastrup" Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Minor documentation nitpick - Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" To: Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:00 PM Subject: R

Re: Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" To: Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Minor documentation nitpick Graham Percival writes: IIRC @var{} is displayed as @emph{@code{}}. It isn't. Not in Info. I don't like using formatting co

Re: Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > IIRC @var{} is displayed as @emph{@code{}}. It isn't. Not in Info. > I don't like using formatting commands directly, but let's do it > anyway. Recipe for trouble with a multi-output format like Texinfo. Either use @var{position} or @samp{(x . y)}, those are intende

Re: Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -, Phil Holmes wrote: > Automatic footnotes take three arguments; the @var{Layout Object} to be > annotated, the @var{(x . y)} position of the indicator and a > > The texinfo manual says: > > "Use the @var command to indicate metasyntactic variables" and so i

Re: Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > In notation/input.tely, line 1100 or so we have: > > Automatic footnotes take three arguments; the @var{Layout Object} to be > annotated, the @var{(x . y)} position of the indicator and a > > The texinfo manual says: > > "Use the @var command to indicate metasyntactic vari

Minor documentation nitpick

2012-02-12 Thread Phil Holmes
In notation/input.tely, line 1100 or so we have: Automatic footnotes take three arguments; the @var{Layout Object} to be annotated, the @var{(x . y)} position of the indicator and a The texinfo manual says: "Use the @var command to indicate metasyntactic variables" and so it doesn't like the p