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: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 59815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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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