GNU bug report logs - #59815
29.0.60; ERC manual does not build with the last C version of texinfo

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.60; ERC manual does not build with the last C version of texinfo
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800

With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
there is no @indentedblock.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 59815-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59815: 29.0.60;
 ERC manual does not build with the last C version of texinfo
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:32:33 +0200

> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
> there is no @indentedblock.

Thanks, fixed.

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From: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
To: 59815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59815: 29.0.60; ERC manual does not build with the last C
 version of texinfo
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:45:06 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800
>> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
>> there is no @indentedblock.
>
> Thanks, fixed.

Thanks everyone. I shall refrain from using @-commands not found in
other Emacs manuals, going forward. I have also obtained a copy of
texinfo 4.13.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 59815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59815: 29.0.60; ERC manual does not build with the last C
 version of texinfo
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:42:32 +0200

> From: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org,  luangruo <at> yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:45:06 -0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800
> >> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> >> 
> >> With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
> >> there is no @indentedblock.
> >
> > Thanks, fixed.
> 
> Thanks everyone. I shall refrain from using @-commands not found in
> other Emacs manuals, going forward. I have also obtained a copy of
> texinfo 4.13.

Thanks.

In this particular case, there was no reason to use @indentedblock in the
first place, because our conventions are to format such descriptions as a
@table of @item's.  Then the indentation of the body of each @item is
automatically generated by makeinfo.

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From: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 59815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59815: 29.0.60; EEC manual does not build with the last C
 version of texinfo
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:54:42 -0800

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
>> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org,  luangruo <at> yahoo.com
>> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:45:06 -0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:05:37 +0800
>> >> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> >>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> >> 
>> >> With an ancient texinfo written in C, erc.texi fails to build, because
>> >> there is no @indentedblock.
>> >
>> > Thanks, fixed.
>> 
>> Thanks everyone. I shall refrain from using @-commands not found in
>> other Emacs manuals, going forward. I have also obtained a copy of
>> texinfo 4.13.
>
> Thanks.
>
> In this particular case, there was no reason to use @indentedblock in the
> first place, because our conventions are to format such descriptions as a
> @table of @item's.  Then the indentation of the body of each @item is
> automatically generated by makeinfo.

Duly noted, thanks.

To all my convention flouting peeps out there, you heard it here:
abandon that makeshift jank and embrace the ancient ways (and save
yourself some ugly HTML to boot).

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