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27.0.50; Quoting problem in (elisp) Documentation Tips

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 34372-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34372: 27.0.50; Quoting problem in (elisp) Documentation Tips
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:51:17 +0200

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:10:39 +0100
> 
> Prompted by the current thread "Quoting t and nil in docstrings" on
> emacs-devel, I noticed a display problem in the Info node (elisp)
> Documentation Tips, line 99, in the following sequence of characters:
> 
>   ‘CODE can be ‘lambda’, nil, or t’
> 
> The sequence
> 
>   CODE can be ‘lambda
> 
> is displayed with Info-quoted face, all the other characters with the
> default face.  I supposed this is a texinfo (or makeinfo) bug triggered
> by the nested quoting in the display (in the texinfo source the above
> sequence of characters is enclosed in @samp{}, except for the uttermost
> quote signs, which are only in the Info display).  In lieu of a fix for
> this bug I see two workarounds for the Emacs tips.texi file: (a) use the
> "older single-quoting convention", i.e. `lambda', which is also used in
> other examples in this very node; (b) use the @example environment
> instead of @samp, which does not add the outer quotes and displays the
> entire sequence in the default face (but then this example would look
> different from the other examples in this node that use the "older
> single-quoting convention", so maybe both (a) and (b), or change the
> quoting in the other examples).  I haven't tried to check whether there
> are other instances of this display issue in the Emacs doc.

I used the @example method.

Thanks.

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