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Re: [PING][PATCH][BZ #17787] Fix exponents in manual.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:24:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PING][PATCH][BZ #17787] Fix exponents in manual.
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On 06/16/2015 04:07 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
>
>> Ping, if you have better idea I would like it.
>
> I've looked back at the previous discussion. It seems clear enough that:
>
> * It's a bad idea to duplicate parts of sentences that don't need
> duplicating. Conditionals in the main manual should be around lines with
> nothing more than the single word using @math.
It's bad, but it's not terrible. I would rather see the manual get updated
than nit pick over the exact ways that this can get fixed.
> * It should be possible to use a Texinfo macro for this and so avoid any
> conditionals at all in the main manual. Something like (untested)
>
> @iftex
> @macro twoexp{exp}
> 2^{\exp\}
> @end macro
> @end iftex
> @ifnottex
> @macro twoexp{exp}
> 2^{exp}
> @end macro
> @end itnottex
>
> (and then use @twoexp{63} etc.).
That's a good suggestion.
Cheers,
Carlos.