GNU bug report logs - #1381
23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 1381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 1381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        bug-submit-list <at> donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:26:10 -0500

    They are not in uppercase, they are in "small caps" typeface (@sc in
    Texinfo markup).  You are reading the Info manual, where @sc is
    rendered as uppercase, but in the printed manual it looks differently.

It may be a mistake to render @sc as upper case in Info
because these words might get confused with variable names.
(I don't know if that is a real problem.)
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 26 days ago.

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