Re: Text decoration in node names and index entries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 20:41:14 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> On 3 July 2015 at 20:51, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I'd like to propose that when @-commands that produce decoration
> >> around text are used in node names or index entries, the decoration is
> >> suppressed.
> >
> > I think you will take away a feature if you do that: some @-commands
> > change the output in ways that cannot be given up without losing
> > something.
> 
> Which @-commands did you have in mind? I've made @emph, @strong, @sub
> and @sup be kept, and also anything defined with @definfoenclose. I'm
> not sure what's the best.

Also those that insert non-ASCII characters.  Even @sc, I think.

> Eli > This has come up before, so I suggest to look up past discussions,
> > around the time the option mentioned below was introduced.
> >
> >> For comparison, the output of makeinfo 4.13 (using the --force option):
> >
> > Btw, makeinfo 4.13 has the --commands-in-node-names for this.
> 
> --commands-in-node-names was in texinfo 4.0 released September 1999,
> and --force in 3.11, in July 1997. The mail archives at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/ only go back to
> September 2000.

I'll try to dig into my mail archives, maybe I will find something.