From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pxref
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:16:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irvstp4p.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uirvscz9p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:29:22 +0200")
>> pxref seems to put in a full stop in the generated info page, when the
>> reference includes the manual name:
>>
>> (@pxref{Registers,,, gdb, The GNU debugger}) gives: (see Registers(gdb).)
>>
>> which seems wrong since
>>
>> (@pxref{Registers}) gives: (see Registers)
>
> Wrong mailing list ;-) It's not a Texinfo problem, it's a problem with
> Emacs's reformatting of cross-references.
>
> makeinfo _always_ produces either a "::" or a "." at the end of the
> @pxref cross-reference, before the closing paren, because those are
> the rules of the Info files. If you look in the emacs-* files with a
> pager, you will see that a @pxref with more than one argument always
> ends in a period, no matter if it's the in the same or another manual.
The reason not to hide a period is because it may end the sentence.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <17238.44739.179203.166568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
2005-10-20 9:29 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 11:16 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-10-20 12:41 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 16:46 ` pxref Juri Linkov
2005-10-20 19:35 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-23 4:42 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-23 7:27 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-23 13:43 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-23 16:14 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-23 20:20 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-23 22:45 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-24 13:38 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-24 20:17 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-26 16:46 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-26 18:29 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-26 18:34 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-26 19:02 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-26 20:55 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-26 20:57 ` pxref Karl Berry
2005-10-27 12:20 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-27 14:03 ` pxref Karl Berry
2005-10-27 15:03 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-27 15:29 ` pxref Karl Berry
2005-10-27 17:32 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-27 23:07 ` pxref Karl Berry
2005-10-28 8:28 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-29 2:24 ` pxref Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-29 19:47 ` pxref Juri Linkov
2005-11-08 20:59 ` pxref Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-09 9:34 ` pxref Juri Linkov
2005-11-09 19:27 ` pxref Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-10 1:39 ` pxref Miles Bader
2005-10-28 17:32 ` pxref Robert J. Chassell
2005-10-29 20:34 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 19:06 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-28 3:47 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-25 8:05 ` pxref Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-25 20:29 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-24 1:01 ` pxref Richard M. Stallman
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