From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 2975@debbugs.gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org
Subject: bug#2975: texinfo-master-menu and emacs.texi
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 01:48:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20193.48452.578669.370574@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pqfymcey.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri Dec 9 2011 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I tried to explain that already, in my original mail: they are not
> needed if you structure your Texinfo source according to the rules
> described in "(texinfo)makeinfo Pointer Creation".
>
> Most manuals should have no problems being structured like that (the
> Emacs User Manual and Emacs Lisp Manual are actually structured
> according to those rules), but some specialized uses of Texinfo cannot
> be limited to tree-like structure, or don't want to use sectioning
> commands (@chapter, @section, etc.) or menus, or want to order the
> nodes in some special way that defeats the automatic generation of
> node pointers. For these, you must explicitly have the Next, Prev, Up
> pointers in Texinfo.
OK, thanks a lot. For me, this is an important clarification.
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20191.48632.665251.448872@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2011-12-07 20:43 ` bug#2975: texinfo-master-menu and emacs.texi Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 21:19 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 10:38 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-10 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 18:52 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 18:55 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 19:06 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 19:59 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 20:54 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-09 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-09 7:48 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2011-12-10 0:17 ` Karl Berry
2011-12-10 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-09 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-12 21:33 bug#2975: `texinfo-master-menu' doesn't work Alan Mackenzie
2011-12-10 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <20111211173859.GA2755@acm.acm>
2011-12-11 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-12 12:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-12-12 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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