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Re: Three lines in Concept Index not linked
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: Three lines in Concept Index not linked |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:15:15 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:04:32PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:21:26 +0800
> >>
> >> In (info "(make) Concept Index") these three lines
> >> * :: rules (double-colon): Double-Colon.
> >> * ::=: Flavors.
> >> * ::= <1>: Setting.
> >> are not linked.
>
> EZ> That's a limitation of Texinfo, unfortunately: colons are "magic".
> EZ> The only alternative is not to have them in the index at all, which I
> EZ> think would be worse.
>
> EZ> in any case, here is not the right place to complain about this, IMO.
>
> Well I'm now Cc:ing bug-texinfo.
See this message on the subject:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2019-01/msg00235.html
It can be supported in the info viewer. The only downside is a slight
inconsistency in the interpretation of menus in the Info format, which
doesn't seem like a problem to me. Maybe you could ask the Emacs
developers to apply the fix that was posted by Juri Linkov in that
discussion?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2019-01/msg00267.html