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Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:00:24 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> What will that do to byte offsets in Info tag tables?  I'd rather
>> avoid modifying the buffer contents.
>
> What do you mean by "byte-offsets in Info tag tables"?  Do you mean that
> this approach risks leaving a table misaligned?  If so, I think that is
> correct, and clearly a drawback.  I don't see an easy way around it with
> this approach (but I also don't see a scenario when you would properly
> use an em dash in a table).

You can put a string with spaces using the ‘display’ text property over
the em-dash char the same way as Info-hide-note-references is implemented.



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