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Re: dot in node not accepted in Info in menu entry
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: dot in node not accepted in Info in menu entry |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:03:49 -0400 |
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:54:44 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
>
> It seems to me that a construct like
>
> @menu
> * generate. w::
> @end menu
>
> which leads to, in Info
>
> * generate. w::
>
> should be followed as the `generate. w' node. Currently it doesn't
> work.
Right.
> It may also be that, to be consistent with cases like
>
> @menu
> * label: generate. w::
> @end menu
Yes.
> If this is so, it should certainly be clearer in the manual, either
> in the part about menus, or at least in the Info format
> specification part of the manual (I could propose a documentation
> patch, in case this is the issue).
This is already documented:
* Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or
parentheses within a node name; these confuse the Texinfo
processors. Perhaps this limitation will be removed some day, too.