GNU bug report logs - #19697
25.0.50; Emacs manual line is 239 chars wide!

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:52:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 19697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 19697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19697: 25.0.50; Emacs manual line is 239 chars wide!
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:53:42 +0200

> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:12:45 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 19697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:58:42 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> > Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 19697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > I see.  I thought that Emacs was responsible for, or able to take
> > care of, line lengths.
> 
> The line length in the Texinfo sources is just fine.  It's just that
> makeinfo renders this particular place incorrectly.
> 
> > Anyway, OK by me if you close this as not an Emacs bug.
> 
> If there's a rainy day soon, I might try something to work around the
> makeinfo bug.

I found a way to kludge around the bug in Texinfo, and committed the
result to the emacs-24 branch.
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 176 days ago.

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