Re: why are `@anchor` and friends forbidden on an `@item` line?

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 06:00:12PM +0100, pertusus@free.fr wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 04:19:23PM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > This is with a self-compiled version 7.1.  For some auto-generated
> > documentation I tried stuff like this:
> > 
> > ```
> > @table @asis
> > @item @anchor{foo}@code{foo} ...
> > @item @anchor{bar}@code{bar} ...
> > ...
> > @end table
> > ```
> > BTW, there is a similar issue with
> > 
> > ```
> > @table @asis
> > @item @ref{foo}
> > ...
> > @item @bar{foo}
> > ...
> > @end table
> > ```
> > 
> > to be used with HTML output only, and which also causes warnings with
> > `makeinfo`.  In this case, however, I don't know how to avoid the
> > warning...
> 
> This was reported some time ago and this warning has been removed in the
> current code.
> 
> When I try your example code, I do not get any warning with the current
> development version (which is likely to become the next release soon).

It was already fixed in Texinfo 7.1.1, released 2024-09-07:

* texi2any
  . do not complain about presence of @anchor inside @item in a table

Previously discussed:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2023-11/msg00002.html