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Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.


From: Andrew M. Scott
Subject: Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:28:28 -0700

I noticed two anomalies in the current info/texi files:

1. There are excess spaces in the generated Copyright lines in many
   but not all info files; I'm using makeinfo 4.8. This seems to occur
   for files with more than one line of copyright dates.

2. Some of the *.texi files use the @copyright{} construct in their
   copyright lines (e.g. erc.texi), and some don't (e.g. elisp.texi).

Samples:

A. elisp.info snippet:

   This is edition 2.9 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual,
corresponding to Emacs version 22.0.50.

   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999,
2000,   2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     ^^^

here is the corresponding snippet from elisp.texi:

Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000,
  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

A quick spot-check showed similar excess spaces in the info files for
eshell, woman, and ebrowse, but *not* pcl-cvs or message.

B. The space in url.info appears to be due to hard spaces in the
   url.texi file.

C. The erc.texi file is an example of a file using the @copyright{}
   construct (in constrast to elisp.texi):

This manual is for ERC version 5.1.2.

Copyright @copyright{} 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-03-07 on chls308

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Andy Scott




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