GNU bug report logs - #35885
25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 16:00:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 35885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:19:13 +0200
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Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>>    - changed @kbd to @verb, because @kbd surrounds text with pair of
>>>      curved quotes in plain text - result it ``like this'', @verb
>>>      doesn't do it;

Whatever you're using to send emails, it keeps destroying the text,
which makes things hard to follow.  This is what the text looks like to
me:

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> I would prefer using @verb in these cases, but with good font outer
> quotes (printed by the @kbd command) are "curved", so it's bearable.

So you think @kbd is fine in this case, after all?

If there's anything remaining you think should be done here, could you
spin new patches and explain each change you want to make?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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