Re: Fixing the automatic generation of Tex info node names

[Philip Kaludercic]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> For some reason ox-texinfo removes periods from node names.  It seems
>> this is not necessary as info can render these files without any issues,
>> and in certain cases not intended (e.g. I had a node named "Emacs 28.1"
>> and it was abbreviated to "Emacs 281").
>
> According to
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Node-Line-Requirements
>
>>> 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.)
>
> Not that we cannot work around this, but we need something different
> than the proposed patch.

Would you happen to know what the issue is?  As I said, the documents
appear to render just as expected in my case, but it might just be due
to the version or because I didn't hit some specific edge-case.

> Best,
> Ihor

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic