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Re: bug#34023: Support double colons in Info index entries


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: bug#34023: Support double colons in Info index entries
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:32:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Gavin Smith wrote:

> Even if Info mode and the standalone Info browser are changed to 
> support colons in index entries, people running older versions of these 
> won't be able to read them.

Sure. However, if Texinfo is intending to support them from version X,
IMO it should document that.

> However, texi2any does output the colon in the index entry without
> complaint.

Personally I think this is a bug, but Texinfo's previous maintainer
disagreed about what warnings were appropriate.

http://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2014-02/msg00029.html



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