Re: m4sugar doc example

Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Eric,

Thanks for the longer explanations. It really makes clear that a "rescanning"
process occurs - something which helps understanding m4.

Here are two minor tweaks of the text, to make it clear that
  - the intent of the second snippet is the same as of the first one,
  - the capitalization occurred in both cases, only at different moments.

Bruno

--- m4.texinfo	3 Feb 2007 21:47:34 -0000	1.1.1.1.2.111
+++ m4.texinfo	3 Feb 2007 23:01:00 -0000
@@ -966,10 +966,10 @@
 @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/@/2007-01/@/msg00389.html},
 and a followup patch in
 @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/@/2007-02/@/msg00000.html}},
-showing both both a buggy approach and the desired results.  In the
-original attempt, the user desires to output a shell assignment
-statement that takes its argument and turns it into a shell variable by
-converting it to uppercase and prepending a prefix.
+showing both both a buggy approach and the desired results.  The user
+desires to output a shell assignment statement that takes its argument
+and turns it into a shell variable by converting it to uppercase and
+prepending a prefix.  The original attempt looks like this:
 
 @example
 changequote([,])dnl
@@ -1043,7 +1043,9 @@
 Now for a corrected approach.  This rearranges the use of newlines and
 whitespace so that less whitespace is output (which, although harmless
 to shell scripts, can be visually unappealing), and fixes the quoting
-issues so that the desired capitalization occurs.
+issues so that the capitalization occurs when the macro
+@samp{gl_STRING_MODULE_INDICATOR} is invoked, rather then when it is
+defined.
 
 @example
 changequote([,])dnl
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