From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 19:57:44 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Prefer plain characters to Texinfo circumlocutions X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~2229^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08782a2ea95dec5662954a1de353a7da699ac339;p=emacs.git Prefer plain characters to Texinfo circumlocutions For example, prefer 'François' to 'Fran\c{c}ois', 'Fran\c cois', 'Fran@,{c}ois' or 'Francois' (all of which were used!) in Texinfo sources. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi index a80f942f61a..de381dfa1e8 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +@c -*- coding: utf-8 -*- @c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. @@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ faces used to display the character, and any overlays containing it @smallexample position: 1 of 1 (0%), column: 0 - character: @^e (displayed as @^e) (codepoint 234, #o352, #xea) + character: ê (displayed as ê) (codepoint 234, #o352, #xea) preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) code point in charset: 0xEA script: latin diff --git a/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi b/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi index 7ba45a6023f..7752bf0617c 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@c -*-texinfo-*- +@c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*- @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 1990-1994, 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions. @@ -1717,14 +1717,14 @@ they usually will be in a Lisp file (@pxref{Loading Non-ASCII}), you must type the keys as multibyte too. For instance, if you use this: @smallexample -(global-set-key "@"o" 'my-function) ; bind o-umlaut +(global-set-key "ö" 'my-function) ; bind o-umlaut @end smallexample @noindent or @smallexample -(global-set-key ?@"o 'my-function) ; bind o-umlaut +(global-set-key ?ö 'my-function) ; bind o-umlaut @end smallexample @noindent diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi index 05d5ca48043..28f90d9567a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@c -*-texinfo-*- +@c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*- @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions. @@ -1817,7 +1817,7 @@ original text: @example @group (decode-coding-string "Gr\374ss Gott" 'latin-1) - @result{} #("Gr@"uss Gott" 0 9 (charset iso-8859-1)) + @result{} #("Grüss Gott" 0 9 (charset iso-8859-1)) @end group @end example @end defun diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi index c7d71d2aba9..c4c74ec7556 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@c -*-texinfo-*- +@c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*- @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 1990-1995, 1998-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software @c Foundation, Inc. @@ -375,13 +375,7 @@ that, Emacs signals an error. codes. A hexadecimal escape sequence consists of a backslash, @samp{x}, and the hexadecimal character code. Thus, @samp{?\x41} is the character @kbd{A}, @samp{?\x1} is the character @kbd{C-a}, and -@code{?\xe0} is the character -@iftex -@samp{@`a}. -@end iftex -@ifnottex -@samp{a} with grave accent. -@end ifnottex +@code{?\xe0} is the character @kbd{à} (@kbd{a} with grave accent). You can use any number of hex digits, so you can represent any character code in this way. diff --git a/doc/misc/calc.texi b/doc/misc/calc.texi index f6f7cd26ed1..034f42b1a16 100644 --- a/doc/misc/calc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/calc.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- +\input texinfo @c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*- @comment %**start of header (This is for running Texinfo on a region.) @c smallbook @setfilename ../../info/calc.info @@ -1203,9 +1203,7 @@ algebra system for microcomputers. Many people have contributed to Calc by reporting bugs and suggesting features, large and small. A few deserve special mention: Tim Peters, who helped develop the ideas that led to the selection commands, rewrite -rules, and many other algebra features; -@texline Fran\c{c}ois -@infoline Francois +rules, and many other algebra features; François Pinard, who contributed an early prototype of the Calc Summary appendix as well as providing valuable suggestions in many other areas of Calc; Carl Witty, whose eagle eyes discovered many typographical and factual @@ -7218,9 +7216,7 @@ so that the mapping operation works; no prime factor will ever be zero, so adding zeros on the left and right is safe. From then on the job is pretty straightforward. -Incidentally, Calc provides the -@texline @dfn{M@"obius} @math{\mu} -@infoline @dfn{Moebius mu} +Incidentally, Calc provides the @dfn{Möbius μ} function which is zero if and only if its argument is square-free. It would be a much more convenient way to do the above test in practice. @@ -8098,7 +8094,7 @@ argument is exactly what we want to map over: @end smallexample @noindent -Et voil@`a, September 13, 1991 is a Friday. +Et voilà, September 13, 1991 is a Friday. @smallexample @group @@ -19304,9 +19300,7 @@ are relatively prime to @expr{n}. @pindex calc-moebius @tindex moebius The @kbd{k m} (@code{calc-moebius}) [@code{moebius}] command computes the -@texline M@"obius @math{\mu} -@infoline Moebius ``mu'' -function. If the input number is a product of @expr{k} +Möbius μ function. If the input number is a product of @expr{k} distinct factors, this is @expr{(-1)^k}. If the input number has any duplicate factors (i.e., can be divided by the same prime more than once), the result is zero. @@ -27698,9 +27692,7 @@ the keyboard macro @kbd{' tri($) @key{RET}} to make a command that applies @code{tri} to the value on the top of the stack. @xref{Programming}. @cindex Quaternions -The following rule set, contributed by -@texline Fran\c cois -@infoline Francois +The following rule set, contributed by François Pinard, implements @dfn{quaternions}, a generalization of the concept of complex numbers. Quaternions have four components, and are here represented by function calls @samp{quat(@var{w}, [@var{x}, @var{y}, @@ -28048,7 +28040,7 @@ based on a fundamental physical process (although there are efforts to change this) is the kilogram, which was originally defined as the mass of one liter of water, but is now defined as the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram (IPK), a cylinder of platinum-iridium -kept at the Bureau international des poids et mesures in S@`evres, +kept at the Bureau international des poids et mesures in Sèvres, France. (There are several copies of the IPK throughout the world.) The British imperial units, once defined in terms of physical objects, were redefined in 1963 in terms of SI units. The US customary units, diff --git a/doc/misc/ediff.texi b/doc/misc/ediff.texi index bac06f89134..552e3be6598 100644 --- a/doc/misc/ediff.texi +++ b/doc/misc/ediff.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- +\input texinfo @c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*- @c documentation for Ediff @c Written by Michael Kifer @@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ Ray Nickson (nickson at cs.uq.oz.au), Dan Nicolaescu (dann at ics.uci.edu), David Petchey (petchey_david at jpmorgan.com), Benjamin Pierce (benjamin.pierce at cl.cam.ac.uk), -Francois Pinard (pinard at iro.umontreal.ca), +François Pinard (pinard at iro.umontreal.ca), Tibor Polgar (tlp00 at spg.amdahl.com), David Prince (dave0d at fegs.co.uk), Paul Raines (raines at slac.stanford.edu), diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index ef3691e616a..d801031c563 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi @@ -9082,7 +9082,7 @@ CRs into LF (this takes care of Mac line endings) Treat quoted-printable (@code{gnus-article-de-quoted-unreadable}). Quoted-Printable is one common @acronym{MIME} encoding employed when sending non-@acronym{ASCII} (i.e., 8-bit) articles. It typically -makes strings like @samp{d@'ej@`a vu} look like @samp{d=E9j=E0 vu}, +makes strings like @samp{déjà vu} look like @samp{d=E9j=E0 vu}, which doesn't look very readable to me. Note that this is usually done automatically by Gnus if the message in question has a @code{Content-Transfer-Encoding} header that says that this encoding @@ -16967,7 +16967,7 @@ group as read. If the search engine changes its output substantially, @code{nnweb} won't be able to parse it and will fail. One could hardly fault the Web -providers if they were to do this---their @emph{raison d'@^etre} is to +providers if they were to do this---their @emph{raison d'être} is to make money off of advertisements, not to provide services to the community. Since @code{nnweb} washes the ads off all the articles, one might think that the providers might be somewhat miffed. We'll see. @@ -26814,7 +26814,7 @@ David Moore---rewrite of @file{nnvirtual.el} and many other things. Kevin Davidson---came up with the name @dfn{ding}, so blame him. @item -Fran@,{c}ois Pinard---many, many interesting and thorough bug reports, as +François Pinard---many, many interesting and thorough bug reports, as well as autoconf support. @end itemize @@ -26922,7 +26922,7 @@ Gunnar Horrigmo, Richard Hoskins, Brad Howes, Miguel de Icaza, -Fran@,{c}ois Felix Ingrand, +François Felix Ingrand, Tatsuya Ichikawa, @c Ichikawa Ishikawa Ichiro, @c Ishikawa Lee Iverson, diff --git a/doc/misc/org.texi b/doc/misc/org.texi index c0ad90714ca..71572f72d7a 100644 --- a/doc/misc/org.texi +++ b/doc/misc/org.texi @@ -18487,7 +18487,7 @@ enabled source code highlighting in Gnus. Max-Planck-Institute for Neurology. He also inspired the creation of a concept index for HTML export. @item -@i{J@"urgen Vollmer} contributed code generating the table of contents +@i{Jürgen Vollmer} contributed code generating the table of contents in HTML output. @item @i{Samuel Wales} has provided important feedback and bug reports. diff --git a/doc/misc/tramp.texi b/doc/misc/tramp.texi index ec39fc70088..ece851ded93 100644 --- a/doc/misc/tramp.texi +++ b/doc/misc/tramp.texi @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ copy and modify this GNU manual.'' @titlepage @title @value{tramp} version @value{trampver} User Manual @author by Daniel Pittman -@author based on documentation by Kai Gro@ss{}johann +@author based on documentation by Kai Großjohann @page @insertcopying @end titlepage @@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ of your (local or remote) host, you might need to adapt this. Example: "password" "Password" ;; Deutsch "passwort" "Passwort" - ;; Fran@,{c}ais + ;; Français "mot de passe" "Mot de passe") t) ".*:\0? *")) @end lisp