On 2010-06-08 17:43+0100 Leo wrote: > On 2010-06-08 17:18 +0100, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> I will need some help to demonstrate the impact of the above US-ASCII >> to emacs. >> >> I have a directory where I have unpacked plplot-info-5.9.6.tar.gz. >> >> The command >> >> info plplotdoc.info >> >> seems to work so all seems well there at that low level. >> >> What are the info install commands and emacs commands required to (a) >> use those unpacked info files from emacs, and (b) demonstrate the >> impact of US-ASCII? >> >> Alan > > I don't know other editors except emacs use that kind of coding setting. > It seems it doesn't belong there. My wild guess is that is supposed to > be inside a comment in the source (.xml or .texi) so that it won't end > up in the output format (.info in this case). > > So far the only problem I see is when modifying the info file and try to > save. See this screenshot http://imagebin.org/100459.
Hi Leo: Thanks for that additional information. I can now replicate that warning here, and I agree it is a docbook2x deficiency to use US-ASCII for the encoding rather than something recognizable by editors. However, I have decided not to take action on this issue based on the principle of making as conservative workarounds for docbook2x deficiencies as possible and because these generated info files are generally used by the info command rather than edited by hand. Of course, if you are hand editing these generated files in any case you can always change US-ASCII to an encoding that is recognized by your editor before outputting the result. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
