From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: jari.aalto@cante.net, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: gdb.1 - order options alphabetically in manual page
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834or2yfaq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090916154934.GD8910@adacore.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:49:34 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> -.TP
> -.BI "\-symbols=" "file"\c
> -.TP
> -.BI "\-s " "file"\c
>
> Into:
>
> +.TP
> +.B -s FILE, \-symbols=FILE
>
> As it turns out, I'm really wondering whether this is a correct change,
> since the switch argument is no longer in italics. It seems to be the
> convention that such arguments be in italics. Eli, what do you think?
I think this part of the change is incorrect and should not be
installed. The switch argument _should_ be in italics, since they are
a functional equivalent of Texinfo's @var, which TeX typesets in
italics or cursive.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 18:20 Jari Aalto
2009-09-10 1:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-10 1:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-10 22:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-11 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-11 23:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-12 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 18:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-10-11 21:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-11 23:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 15:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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