Subject: Re: bug#37846: @acronym not handled correctly in synopsis or descriptions
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:21:32 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Chris,

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> skribis:

> When rendering synopsis or descriptions as plain text, acronyms are not
> handled correctly, they're just omitted entirely.
>
>   Flexible objects for representing @acronym{UFO, unified font object}
>   data
>
>   ->
>
>   Flexible objects for representing data
>
>
>   @acronym{FIFE, Flexible Isometric Free Engine} is a
>   multi-platform\nisometric game engine.  Python bindings are included
>   allowing users to create\ngames using Python as well as C++.
>
>   ->
>
>   is a multi-platform isometric game engine.  Python bindings are
>   included allowing users to create games using Python as well as C++.
>
>
> I believe this is a bug in Guile, but it could also be a problem with
> the texinfo markup.

Fixed in Guile commit ff14b77ff527f297438b83614db0c1d56322ec42 (on
‘master’, which corresponds to 3.0.x, but we could backport to
‘stable-2.2’).

Thanks,
Ludo’.