Re: [help-texinfo] Want curly braces around key sequences (Was: Overfull vbox in Concept Index leads to a blank page in the middle of the index)

[Gavin Smith]

On 28 June 2016 at 17:28, Robert Weiner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'd say I haven't read the Hyperbole manual in depth and don't really
>> know what the braced key sequences mean: if they are just key
>> sequences to be typed, I'd suggest using @kbd instead with the regular
>> single quotes, because that would be more consistent with other
>> Texinfo manuals and more understandable to readers, unless you really
>> want to use brace characters instead. It's possible that the brace
>> characters mean something special in the context of Hyperbole which I
>> don't know about.
>
>
> They are regular key sequences and I use @kbd already.
> I want @kbd to surround all key sequences with braces only,
> not single quotes so I don't have to manually insert the
> braces around calls to @kbd.
>
> Given that, does that change any of your feedback?

I see. There is no way that I know of to change the output for just
@kbd alone for the Info output, without changing the source code of
texi2any. The best way to achieve what you want would appear to be to
use a macro instead of @kbd.