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

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Message #16 received at 59815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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