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@: overused in manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:27:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:17:02 -0500

> In any case, in my experience, this kind of changes is quickly made
> futile by future changes to the manuals that re-introduce comma-less
> e.g. and i.e. back into the text.  So if we want to adhere to the
> style that prefers the comma, we should IMO install some change that
> enforces these rules, to be run at "make info" time and flag any
> deviations.

And I think we had better just ignore those differences and move on.
Enforcing such rules is a waste of time.


        Stefan
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