Re: [PATCH 2/2] etc/texi2pod.pl: C<>'s can be nested as well

[Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>]

On 2019-09-16 6:06 p.m., Carl Bordum Hansen wrote:
> ---
>  etc/texi2pod.pl | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/etc/texi2pod.pl b/etc/texi2pod.pl
> index 34ba7efd0f..167cc71ba9 100644
> --- a/etc/texi2pod.pl
> +++ b/etc/texi2pod.pl
> @@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ sub postprocess
>      s/&LT;/</g;
>      s/&GT;/>/g;
>  
> -    # Now un-nest all B<>, I<>, R<>.  Theoretically we could have
> +    # Now un-nest all B<>, I<>, R<>, C<>.  Theoretically we could have
>      # indefinitely deep nesting; in practice, one level suffices.
> -    1 while s/([BIR])<([^<>]*)([BIR])<([^<>]*)>/$1<$2>$3<$4>$1</g;
> +    1 while s/([BIRC])<([^<>]*)([BIRC])<([^<>]*)>/$1<$2>$3<$4>$1</g;
>  
>      # Replace R<...> with bare ...; eliminate empty markup, B<>;
>      # shift white space at the ends of [BI]<...> expressions outside
> 

Hi Carl,

Can you explain why this change is needed?  Is there a file that was not
generated properly?

Simon