Re: Text decoration in node names and index entries

[Gavin Smith]

On 7 July 2015 at 16:39, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> There was this discussion in 2003:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2003-05/msg00055.html
>
> (it continued in June).  It mentions @value and macros as potentially
> useful commands in node names.
>
> Also this one, which provides a real use case:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2003-06/msg00044.html
>

There are several commands that may appear in node names that are
completely unaffected by this change, including @sc and accent
commands, as well as others like @quotedblleft. HTML normalized node
names are unaffected as well.

As far as I understand macros don't participate directly in the node
conversion - by the time the Texinfo constituting a node name is
converted, any macros or values will already have been expanded.