Re: AW: problems with display of info files in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rubey Martin <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:42:02 +0000
> 
> I'm afraid I found a very disappointing reason for the footnote problem:
> 
> http://osdir.com/ml/help-texinfo-gnu/2015-09/msg00003.html
> 
> Apparently, emacs 24 interprets anything which looks like (1234) as a 
> footnote.
> 
> Given this, I'm not sure anymore whether it's worth trying to produce texinfo 
> documentation for sage, because having something like (3) is very very common 
> in the documentation.
> 
> However, this doesn't explain why info jumps to bad places - again, this 
> seems to be an emacs, not an info problem.
> 
> any ideas oor suggestions?

Yes: upgrade both your Texinfo and your Emacs to newer versions.  You
happen to use the only known combination of these two packages that
has these problems.  The "jumps to bad places", for example, is due to
a subtle bug in Texinfo 5.2  that Emacs 24.4 is unable to cope with.

I have just tried your Texinfo fragment with the latest Texinfo and
Emacs, and saw no problems whatsoever.