23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

[Drew Adams]

emacs -Q
 
Open Info to the GNUS manual.
Use `T' to see the TOC.
 
Try any of the FAQ links. You get an error message.
Plus, those links are not rendered (created) correctly.
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-05-29 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 

Re: 23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

[Juri Linkov]

> Open Info to the GNUS manual.
> Use `T' to see the TOC.
>
> Try any of the FAQ links. You get an error message.
> Plus, those links are not rendered (created) correctly.

This doesn't work because Gnus uses invalid characters in node
names.  See (info "(texinfo) Node Line Requirements") that says:
"you cannot use periods, commas, colons or parentheses within
a node name".  But there are periods in node names like "[1.1]".

What is interesting that references to "[1.1]" work when they
refer to the same file.  But TOC references contain absolute
file names because the TOC is a virtual Info *file*.  Perhaps
changing the TOC to be a virtual Info *node* with local
references to the same Info file will fix this.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Re: 23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Juri Linkov wrote:

>> Open Info to the GNUS manual.
>> Use `T' to see the TOC.
>>
>> Try any of the FAQ links. You get an error message.
>> Plus, those links are not rendered (created) correctly.
>
> This doesn't work because Gnus uses invalid characters in node
> names.  See (info "(texinfo) Node Line Requirements") that says:
> "you cannot use periods, commas, colons or parentheses within
> a node name".  But there are periods in node names like "[1.1]".

I don't have time to deal with this now[1].  Could some assign this
(part of the) bug to Gnus in the bug tracker, please?  (It also
applies to Emacs 22.2 / Gnus 5.10.x.)

Bye, Reiner.

[1] We need to decide if we want to keep gnus-faq.xml or use
    gnus-faq.texi as the primary source and drop gnus-faq.xml.
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Re: 23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> This doesn't work because Gnus uses invalid characters in node
>> names.  See (info "(texinfo) Node Line Requirements") that says:
[...]
> I don't have time to deal with this now[1].  Could some assign this
> (part of the) bug to Gnus in the bug tracker, please?  (It also
> applies to Emacs 22.2 / Gnus 5.10.x.)

Fixed in v5-10.  It will propagate to Emacs_22 and to the trunk (Emacs
and Gnus) eventually.

Bye, Reiner.
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RE: 23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes

[Drew Adams]

FWIW, I expected to receive this from bug-gnu-emacs, or perhaps
emacs-pretest-bug (where I submitted the bug), not from emacs-devel.

I admit it. I'm lost in the bug mails labyrinth.
I have no idea what to expect anymore.

> From: Reiner Steib Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:19 PM
> To: Juri Linkov Cc: Drew Adams; emacs-devel@gnu.org; ding@gnus.org
> Subject: Re: 23.0.60; GNUS manual, `T' - bad nodes
> On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12 2008, Juri Linkov wrote:
> >> This doesn't work because Gnus uses invalid characters in node
> >> names.  See (info "(texinfo) Node Line Requirements") that says:
> [...]
> > I don't have time to deal with this now[1].  Could some assign this
> > (part of the) bug to Gnus in the bug tracker, please?  (It also
> > applies to Emacs 22.2 / Gnus 5.10.x.)
> 
> Fixed in v5-10.  It will propagate to Emacs_22 and to the trunk (Emacs
> and Gnus) eventually.