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@: overused in manual

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Message #50 received at 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:37:14 -0500

    But if one looks up @:, which is in another section, they will not see
    that "X." doesn't need a @:.  And that is a problem, because "Not
    Ending a Sentence" should have pointed to "Ending a Sentence" or told
    explicitly that @: is not required in those cases.

I explicitly decided NOT to say this.  I don't remember for certain
why I made that decision, but it was not an omission.  Maybe it
was to simplify the rules for Texinfo; maybe it is for some
other formatter's sake.

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