On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 11:02:10PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 09:27:23PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > Currently @print{} is output in HTML as "-|", even though the
> > left-pointing turnstile symbol (⊣, U+22A3 LEFT TACK) is available.
> >
> > See
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sequencing.html
> > for an example.
> >
> > Is there a reason for this, and what would be the best way to use this
> > symbol in the output?
>
> I do not recall the reason, probably an oversight on my side.
> More generally, there is a comment saying "Also discussed on the texinfo
> list" for the unicode codepoints used, but I couldn't find the
> discussion.
>
> ...
> Indeed, using this numeric entity seems like an improvement to me.
Thanks, I've made this change.
>
> > Although most of the entities in this section are numeric, some are
> > symbolic:
> > @L{} and @l{} are defined as Ł and ł respectively. So I assume it
> > would be ok to make the change above.
>
> Most are symbolic, some are numeric...
I was unclear on the correct terminology and just decided to make it up,
which I did badly... Some references I read online seemed to refer only
to the symbolic references as "entities".
