Re: Doc fixes for \applyOutput ... ok to push?

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 07:29:26PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Nope; we get line breaks in stuff like @code{\override
>> > Voice.textscript #'padding = #3}.  :(
>> >
>> > I'm not certain whether this constitutes a bug with texinfo itself
>> > (i.e. I'm not going to argue about what the default formatting should
>> > be), but it would definitely be nice if we could make our backends
>> > (texi2pdf, texi2html) avoid newlines in such material.  I can't
>> > remember if this made its way onto the tracker or not.
>> 
>> I seem to remember that in TeX hyphenation is more or less a font
>> property.  If that is not the case, one can likely do something like
>> @iftex
>> @address@hidden@address@hidden }
>> @end iftex
>> in order to turn off hyphenation for the font selected for @code
>> passages, obviously for those backends implemented with TeX.
>
> Oh, sorry -- I wasn't talking about hyphenation (although that
> would also suck!), but rather line breaks between works.

Uh, of course.  Don't ask me what got "hyphenation" into my brain.

> I expect that there's a mechanism our texinfo.tex to do this.

Should be easy enough to do for the TeX backends, effectively wrapping
every @code inside of a @w.  Is that desirable?

-- 
David Kastrup