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Re: Texinfo command nesting and syntax checking: nested @ref


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Texinfo command nesting and syntax checking: nested @ref
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 13:13:40 +0000

On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 10:36:03AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > It would of course be much simpler
> > to eliminate this separate class of commands and forbid @ref etc.
> > inside @section and other commands.  Could we consider this again?
> 
> I have not changed my mind, having refs in section names seems to be
> used in some contexts for documentation writing, so I still think that
> it is good to have.  There was a recent case of
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-11/msg00202.html
> with a use case that was incorrect, but an expectation that refs in
> section names could work.

I think I nearly have the code worked out to handle the
%contain_basic_inline_with_refs commands on the nesting stacks rather
than in _check_valid_nesting.  Hopefully I can get the code for this
committed later today or tomorrow.

After that the next thing would be to integrate the 'regions stack'
into the nesting stacks too.




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