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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/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-20 11:16 UTC|newest]

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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