Re: do not upper case @sc argument in HTML cross manual Cross References

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 06:50:03PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 16:40:26 +0100
> > From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Right now, as seen in "HTML Cross-reference Command Expansion"
> > 
> >  For @sc, any letters are capitalized.
> > 
> > I'd like to change that for 3 reasons
> > * what capitalization means could differ for locales
> 
> Not for ASCII characters, right?

Probably not, but this rule applies to any character.

> > * how this capitalization applies to @sc arguments is not well defined
> 
> You mean, what happens with upper-case characters?  Or what do you
> mean?

When you have something like
@sc{@abbr{a,b}}, should the a inside @abbr be upper-cased?

> > * it adds unnecessary complexity and ambiguity
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> You are basically suggesting to make @sc a no-op in HTML output?  So,
> for example, "@sc{gnu}" will produce "gnu"?  Is that reasonable?

No, not at all, not for HTML output in general, only for the
construction of <a> href targets and id for HTML cross references.
For what is described here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Xref.html

-- 
Pat