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Warn about invalid node names
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Warn about invalid node names |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 16:30:41 -0400 |
Hi,
The Texinfo manual says:
Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or parentheses
within a node name
Yet makeinfo happily accepts such node names with no complaint.
I really can't see why you would not warn about such things by
default. I'm not the first to say this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2007-12/msg00031.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-12/msg00016.html
Previously, the explanation was given:
Because in practice most people prefer to live with the invalid
node names and the slight bogosity in the resulting Info files
than obfuscate them for the sake of makeinfo :).
Surely these people can live with the warnings, or use --no-warn?
Maybe the brave new world of makeinfo 5 can revisit this?
- Warn about invalid node names,
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Karl Berry, 2013/08/07
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/07
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Glenn Morris, 2013/08/12
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Patrice Dumas, 2013/08/12
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/12
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Patrice Dumas, 2013/08/12
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/12
- Re: Warn about invalid node names, Patrice Dumas, 2013/08/13