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Re: bug#34023: Support double colons in Info index entries
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: bug#34023: Support double colons in Info index entries |
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Date: |
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:32:35 -0500 |
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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