Re: [bug #43042] Texinfo manual typo and improvement in info node 'Node Line Requirements'

[Vincent Belaïche]

Thank you, I think that this closes the issue as for the manual.

However I think that texi2any does not make any warning if you use 
multiple spaces within a node name in a menu entry. There should both be 
this warning and a produced info file with those multiple spaces 
corrected to a single space when in the menu entry.

  Vincent.

Gavin Smith a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Vincent Belaïche
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > = Clarifying _References_ =
> >
> > Furthermore, what _References_ means it a bit ambiguous. I understand that it
> > means references in the texinfo manual source code, and that it is one of the
> > following:
> >
> > * a @ref, @xref, or @pxref
> > * a menu entry
> >
> > = Making a separate item =
> >
> > Finally, the stance about space handling, is in the same item as case
> > sensititivity. I think it would improve the manual if a separate item.
> >
> >     
>
> Hello Vincent,
>
> There's been no further talk about this so I've commited the following change:
>
> Modified: trunk/doc/texinfo.texi
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/doc/texinfo.texi      2014-10-03 09:28:43 UTC (rev 5855)
> +++ trunk/doc/texinfo.texi      2014-10-03 09:47:52 UTC (rev 5856)
> @@ -5227,6 +5227,7 @@
>
>  @cindex White space in node name
>  @cindex Spaces in node name
> address@hidden
>  Spaces before and after names on the @samp{@@node} line are ignored.
>  Multiple whitespace characters ``inside'' a name are collapsed to a
>  single space.  For example:
> @@ -5238,9 +5239,10 @@
>  @@node  foo  bar ,
>  @end example
>
> address@hidden all define the same node, namely @samp{foo bar}.  References
> -to the node should all use that name, with no leading or trailing
> -spaces, and a single internal space.
> address@hidden all define the same node, namely @samp{foo bar}.  In contexts
> +where the exact node name is required (for example, in a menu entry),
> +this is the name that that should be used, i.e.@: with no leading or
> +trailing spaces, and a single internal space.
>  @end itemize
>
>