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bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:52:57 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:44:17 -0800
> Cc: 52126@debbugs.gnu.org, Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>,
> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
>
> I read in (info "(texinfo) Node Line Requirements") that:
>
> * Unfortunately, you cannot reliably use periods, commas, or colons
> within a node name; these can confuse the Info reader. Also, a
> node name may not start with a left parenthesis preceding a right
> parenthesis, as in '(not)allowed', since this syntax is used to
> specify an external manual. (Perhaps these limitations will be
> removed some day.)
This is mainly because of the stand-alone Info reader. The Emacs Info
mode copes with these characters in node names much better.
So yes, it is desirable to avoid them, but it isn't a catastrophe if
they are there.
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Stefan Kangas, 2021/11/26
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/26
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Stefan Kangas, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/29
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Stefan Kangas, 2021/11/30
- bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2021/11/30