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Re: Use of tt() formatting in yodl doc sources

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: Re: Use of tt() formatting in yodl doc sources
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:50:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <980604102222.ZM13930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Bart Schaefer" at Jun 4, 98 10:22:22 am

Bart Schaefer wrote:
>That means that if the yodl source looks like:
>
>	with the SUBJECT `tt(subscribe) var(<e-mail-address>)'
>
>then it displays in info as:
>
>	with the SUBJECT ``subscribe' <E-MAIL-ADDRESS>'

I consider this to be a bug in makeinfo.  The resulting info files are
ambiguous and misleading.  But since that's how info files are defined
to be, there's nothing we can reasonably do about it.

-zefram

References:
- Use of tt() formatting in yodl doc sources
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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