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Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup?


From: Alex Kost
Subject: Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:53:03 +0300
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Ludovic Courtès (2017-03-15 17:14 +0100) wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Hello, I've noticed that several packages contain "@code" structures in
>> their synopses, but only 'description' field supports texinfo markup.
>> For example, look at:
>>
>>   guix package -s ruby-minitest-bonus-assertions
>>
>> So I wonder, should these synopses be adjusted to remove @code things,
>> or would it be better to make sysnopses support it?
>
> Maybe we should support Texinfo in synopses after all.  I don’t think
> there were good reasons not to do it.
>
> Thoughts?

I'm not aware of potential problems so I think it would be good to add
this support to synopses.

-- 
Alex



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