From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: arash@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-29 889a550ca08: ; Fix Texinfo warnings
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:48:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jigmeb3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8aw75cj.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:11:08 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: arash@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:11:08 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I do not see any clear reason why one may not put @anchor at the same
> >> line with @item.
> >
> > I don't understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that the
> > warning is bogus and should not be emitted in this case? Or that the
> > Texinfo manual should explain better why @anchor should not appear on
> > an @item line? If so, please take this up with the Texinfo
> > maintainers, and ask them either to change the code or to fix the
> > manual.
>
> I was hoping that you know and can quickly explain the reason.
I don't. In any case, you will be much better off talking to the
Texinfo developers about these new warnings.
> > Me, I would simply move the @anchor line before the @item, where it
> > belongs. It will shut up the warning and also make the manual cleaner
> > from the Texinfo POV. (Thet's what I did in other cases where this
> > warning was emitted by makeinfo 7.1.) But that's me.
>
> Moving _before_ @item is not an option. For example, consider
>
> - This is a long list item, and we want to put an anchor <<<here>>>, in the middle of the line.
>
> The anchor does not belong to item itself, it is linking to a specific
> place in the text.
IME, Texinfo doesn't support this usage.
> >> In Org mode, we add @anchor at the same place where the corresponding
> >> Org markup (<<<radio target>>>) is placed.
> >
> > That's a mistake, IMO. @anchor is basically the same as @node.
>
> AFAIU, it is not. See the above example.
Well, your example doesn't work in all cases, where's my usage does.
But again, please talk to the Texinfo developers about this.
> >> I guess we might try to put @anchor on a separate line just for the sake
> >> of avoiding this warning, but I am not confident that it is always safe
> >> and won't break Texinfo markup.
> >
> > It won't, since that's how @anchor is supposed to be used.
>
> Does it mean that something like
>
> @item This is
> @anchor{my-anchor}
> a single paragraph inside item.
>
> is always safe?
I don't know, and IMO @anchor should be before the @item, not after
it.
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[not found] <169796650463.2984.6470791064475342706@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20231022092145.0486AC09BDB@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2023-10-22 10:30 ` emacs-29 889a550ca08: ; Fix Texinfo warnings Arash Esbati
2023-10-22 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 10:36 ` Arash Esbati
2023-10-23 12:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-23 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 13:24 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-23 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 9:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-24 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-05 11:30 ` @anchor on @item line (was: emacs-29 889a550ca08: ; Fix Texinfo warnings) Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-06 19:29 ` Gavin Smith
2023-11-07 10:29 ` Patrice Dumas
2023-11-12 19:23 ` @anchor on @item line Gavin Smith
2023-11-14 21:58 ` Gavin Smith
2023-11-15 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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