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Re: RFA: fix gdb.texinfo for Texinfo 5.0
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:52:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFA: fix gdb.texinfo for Texinfo 5.0
- References: <877gm1d7nm.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <8338wpo946.fsf@gnu.org>
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Tom> The fix for the first problem is to just remove the @table.
Tom> There's no need for it.
Eli> It's possible that someone used this trick to get the text indented.
Eli> All of those instances are around @defXXX directives, so perhaps
Eli> someone didn't like how functions/methods/etc. look unless indented.
Eli> But if you are satisfied by the results of removing @table in those
Eli> cases, that's fine by me.
Yeah, I think it looks ok.
Tom> The fix for the second was to use @w{} as the argument to @item.
Eli> Yes, Texinfo 5.0 replaced one ugly kludge with another, sigh.
Eli> (We left the @item empty because we wanted `' in the manual, by virtue
Eli> of "@table @samp".)
It took me a while to find @w{}.
Eli> P.S. I recommend everybody not to use makeinfo 5 yet, since it's
Eli> dog-slow. I renamed it to 'makeinfo5' and keep the old v4.13a
Eli> executable around, because it is 30 times faster, and that really
Eli> shows when processing such a large manual.
I noticed that too. It is really noticeably slower.
I just did this because Texinfo 5 is in the Fedora build root, and I
thought it would be good for gdb to be warning-free there.
Tom