parse-info branch ready for merging?



Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> Same results for xterm as for xfce-terminal. Same results for all three
> Lisp implementations, I think (didn't notice any difference, maybe I
> didn't look hard enough).
>
>  * English documentation has spurious characters before and after
>    variable names (where quote marks might occur).
>
>  * Documentation for some items is truncated. E.g. read_matrix in both
>    English and Portuguese (UTF-8, didn't try non-UTF-8).
>
>  * Off-by-one problem occurs for some items, not others. E.g. writefile
>    Portuguese (UTF-8) shows documentation for mod_threshold.
>
>  * @deffnx items (i.e. more than one function prototype) are displayed
>    in list shown by ??. Should display only first one (@deffn).
>
>  * At present, list shown by ?? shows name of section in parentheses
>    e.g. pfeformat  (Functions and Variables for Display). I think that
>    context is helpful so I'd rather not give it up.
>
>  * With CMUCL + LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8, ? fort causes about 20 lines of
>    compiler warning message to be emitted (something about "signed word
>    to integer coercion"). 
>
> Some problems might be caused by different output of Texinfo 5.
> I don't have Texinfo 4 installed so I can't test that at the moment.

Eek. Ok, I'll go through these problems over the next couple of days and
see if I can fix them. Thanks for testing.

Rupert
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