Re: [pcre-dev] manual in Texinfo?

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Author: Zack Weinberg
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To: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] manual in Texinfo?
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>  <pre>
>   (*CR)        carriage return
>   (*LF)        linefeed
>   (*CRLF)      carriage return, followed by linefeed
>   (*ANYCRLF)   any of the three above
>   (*ANY)       all Unicode newline sequences
>  </pre>


That could be done, I'm not sure whether or not it would look terrible though.

> > And there are a bunch of places where punctuation-type
> > metacharacters aren't marked up at all in pcrepattern.3, but have to
> > be in Texinfo.
>
> Surely a simple Perl script can deal with that?


I'm not currently seeing a reliable way to distinguish between '.' as
syntax and '.' as regular old punctuation.

This brings me to the end of my thoughts on the subject - the decision
is of course yours.
zw