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Re: info: display '--' as '-'

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Aug 7, 2012, 08:29 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> The data looks OK in user-manual.texi, but "--" is converted to "-" in
> git.info. So either:
>
>   1. There is a bug in makeinfo, which should not be doing this
>      conversion inside a "@display" section.

The texinfo manual says that @display does not change the font (unlike @example), so the body will be rendered like normal text apart from the extra indentation and preserved line breaks.

Andreas.
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