Re: Possible problem in Texinfo manual in Info

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Thanks for the detailed reply. I completely understood.

On 04/20/2014 06:37 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      press space to go from section "12.1.3: '@listoffloats': Tables of
>      Contents for Floats" to the next section, it returns back to 12.1.1
>      instead of going to 12.2: Inserting images, which is the next
>      node. I also tried in the plain GNU info but it had the same
>      problem.
>
> Thanks for the report.  It is just doing what it is told.  That output
> happens because the input has a real @listoffloats command, whose output
> in Info is a real menu, which gives a reference to a real figure (that
> is a couple of sections earlier).  The output from TeX looks quite
> different, the HTML output contains a link
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040listoffloats.html),
> etc.
>
> However, I recognize that it's not especially useful for SPC to go back
> to the node with that figure when reading along in Info.  Maybe I should
> just hardwire the Info output in the manual as text, rather than really
> running @listoffloats.  I'll think about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl


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