bug#31464: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-orgalist: Fix texinfo markup in description.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:

> 2018-05-16 5:16 GMT+02:00 Eric Bavier <address@hidden>:
>
>> On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:55:11 +0200
>> Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> > > This markup breaks guix package -s on current master.
>> > > And guix lint also says, that there is invalid markup in the
>> description.
>> > > You might mean @dfn{LaTeX}, though.
>> >
>> > Yet, @LaTeX{} is valid Texinfo code.
>>
>> Yes, but guile's (texinfo) module does not understand the entire set of
>> texinfo commands.  I'm not sure whether the subset it does understand
>> is even clearly documented.
>>
>>
> I guess that we can contribute the @LaTeX{} macro to the guile module,
> at least a simplified version for sure, but I don't think it will make
> before
> core-updates next. In my opinion this fix is an acceptable tradeoff.
> We might add a comment to modify the markup, once support lands
> in guile, if it is deemed necessary. WDYT?

Clearly Guile’s (texinfo) modules could be improved.  In the meantime,
I’ve pushed this patch to fix the immediate issue.

Note that even when (texinfo) understands @LaTeX{}, we’ll probably
refrain from using it because Guix could be running on an older Guile.

Thanks,
Ludo’.