GNU bug report logs - #37846
@acronym not handled correctly in synopsis or descriptions

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 06:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 37846-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37846: @acronym not handled correctly in synopsis or
 descriptions
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:21:32 +0100
Hi Chris,

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:

> When rendering synopsis or descriptions as plain text, acronyms are not
> handled correctly, they're just omitted entirely.
>
>   Flexible objects for representing @acronym{UFO, unified font object}
>   data
>
>   ->
>
>   Flexible objects for representing data
>
>
>   @acronym{FIFE, Flexible Isometric Free Engine} is a
>   multi-platform\nisometric game engine.  Python bindings are included
>   allowing users to create\ngames using Python as well as C++.
>
>   ->
>
>   is a multi-platform isometric game engine.  Python bindings are
>   included allowing users to create games using Python as well as C++.
>
>
> I believe this is a bug in Guile, but it could also be a problem with
> the texinfo markup.

Fixed in Guile commit ff14b77ff527f297438b83614db0c1d56322ec42 (on
‘master’, which corresponds to 3.0.x, but we could backport to
‘stable-2.2’).

Thanks,
Ludo’.




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