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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rubey Martin <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>,
>       "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:17:15 +0000
> 
> (I admit that I fail to understand why info does not keep the information 
> from the texi file.

It cannot, because the Info file is supposed to be a plain-text file
with no markup and no hidden meta-data.

> It would be very nice to navigate to footnotes, but since we often have 
> things like "busy_beaver(3)" appearing in the text, and three footnotes, info 
> is unable to find out where to jump to...)

I don't think I understand what you mean here.  What does
"busy_beaver(3)" signify in your example? a reference to a man page or
a reference to the 3rd footnote?

> > You can file an Emacs bug report about this, if you want a way to turn
> > it off, or if you think unrelated numbers in parens should never
> > generate a link on display.
> 
> I guess I should, but that means that info is not very useful for viewing 
> sage documentation right now.

I'd say this is an exaggeration.  Having some text displayed in a
special face doesn't yet mean users can't read such a manual, far from
it.