From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:27:13 -0500 Sender: texinfo-pretest-bounces@texinfo.org Message-ID: <200312031327.hB3DRDR16325@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070458047 25609 80.91.224.253 (3 Dec 2003 13:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: texinfo-pretest@texinfo.org Original-X-From: texinfo-pretest-bounces@texinfo.org Wed Dec 03 14:27:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARX2J-00016E-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) with ESMTP id hB3DRIM16344; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:27:18 -0500 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id hB3DRDR16325; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:27:13 -0500 Original-To: juri@jurta.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: texinfo-pretest@texinfo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Texinfo development and discussion. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: texinfo-pretest-bounces@texinfo.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest:1178 gmane.emacs.devel:18320 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18320 For example, currently the Glossary node of the Emacs Manual has non-functional references that merely has a form of a simple text "(q.v.)" or "See `default.'". I see. Yes, this is more or less what anchors were invented for. As far as glossary entries go, I think that would work ok. The reference name solution seems too heuristic. However, I certainly agree with the comment that if we make an anchor for every index entry, that's too many anchors (it would make the i cmd a subset of g :). Instead, I think indexes are important enough that they deserve special treatment. In fact, we've had this discussion before, in the context of allowing arbitrary index names (specifically, ones with a :). One message from that thread is from rms, on 26 Jun 2003 01:30:50 -0400, Message-Id: . If we mark index menus with a special tag, then we can also easily the exact character or line position within the node for the index entry. I believe Dave Gillespie (that's my memory, might have been someone else) implemented a hack for this at one point, but it never made it back into info.el. _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ texinfo-pretest@texinfo.org http://ff0.org/mailman/listinfo/texinfo-pretest