Re: RFC: Remote "qSupported" features probe

Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-13T18:45:21Z

> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:35:26 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> > Did you look at how this empty @item is typeset in the printed version
> > of the manual? I suspect it won't do what you want. Perhaps saying
> > "(@emph{empty})" explicitly will look better.
>
> Hmm. We already use a bare @item in several places, so I didn't think
> to check. It comes out as `' in the appropriate font; do you think
> that's OK?

It's not bad, but the following might be better:

@item @r{(empty)}

> Otherwise, the (empty) appears inside the quote marks and in @samp.
> I actually think best would be "@samp{} (empty)", but I don't know how
> to do that without removing the @samp from the @table and adding it to
> the other reply explicitly.

See above: the @r thingy is supposed to do the trick.