Re: empty ALT text

[email protected] (Karl Berry) Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:56:19 -0500

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    @image{logo,,,&nbsp;}

Try this: @image{logo,,,@-}
It worked for me.  (I'll mention it in the manual.)

Pat is right that `@ ' should work too, as should @:, but they have
bugs.

As for handling & in the fourth arg ... well, Torsten sent a bug report
(on 30nov03) saying & and " were not escaped properly.  In general,
making the fourth arg be Texinfo text rather than *ML text seems like
the right thing to me?

(As a side note, " was apparently still not being escaped into &quot; in
this or other contexts; I changed escape_string in html.c to do that
transformation.)

    I note with amusement all the ways Texinfo works hard to prevent me from

Yep, funny how one person's Right Thing is usually another person's Wrong :).

Thanks as always,
k
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