Re: Warning about ":" in @ref

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> In the particular manual, there are lots of anchors that contain
>>> colons but most of them are not referenced via @ref. (For whatever
>>> reason.)
>>
>> How curious!
>>
> Yeah, I don't really know the history of this.  It's a document that
> was, possibly, in Scribe, that was later converted to latexinfo,
> then latex (using hevea to convert to html) and then finally
> texinfo.  [...]

Indeed, it is common practice (and even recommended) in LaTeX to use
colons in labels.


   Werner