From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: winkler@gnu.org, "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>,
2975@debbugs.gnu.org, "Karl Berry" <karl@freefriends.org>
Subject: bug#2975: texinfo-master-menu and emacs.texi
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:46:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vmnw2gu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RYcxr-0002GW-6k@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:20:39 -0500")
Karl writes:
> Perhaps the description of texinfo-mode would be better off in the Emacs
> manual, instead of the Texinfo manual. (Since it is not maintained as
> part of Texinfo.) I'd be fine with that. Whatever you want to do.
Sounds like a good idea, yes.
Eli writes:
> The simplest fix would be to remove the updating of the @node lines.
> Would anyone object? Karl?
That would be great.
Eli writes:
> I guess I'm saying that the importance of these commands in the
> context of maintaining Emacs documentation is somewhat exaggerated in
> this thread, to say the least ;-)
IIUC the OP is not directly interested in maintaining Emacs
documentation but rather is trying to write a manual for another project
(BBDB, which happens to be an Emacs package).
Eli writes:
> Here's what I see there:
> . texinfo-master-menu indeed does not support multiple-file manuals,
> so it removed all the menu items whose nodes are in files other
> than emacs.texi itself
A good fix here would be for texinfo-master-menu to detect the problem
and signal a warning/error.
> . texinfo-master-menu doesn't grok @iftex and @ifnottext conditionals
> (and probably the other @if... conditionals as well), so it
> produced bad Next and Prev pointers, because, e.g., this:
If leaving Node pointers alone fixes this problem, then there's nothing
else to do, but otherwise texinfo-master-menu should try and detect
these problematic cases and signal an error/warning.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-08 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-07 9:20 texinfo-master-menu and emacs.texi Roland Winkler
2011-12-07 9:57 ` Leo
2011-12-07 14:30 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-07 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-07 14:08 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 19:04 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-10 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-07 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
2011-12-07 19:26 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-07 20:43 ` bug#2975: " Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 21:19 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 10:38 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-12-10 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 18:52 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 18:55 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-08 19:06 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 19:59 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-12-08 20:54 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-09 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-09 7:48 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-10 0:17 ` Karl Berry
2011-12-10 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-09 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-08 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-07 22:08 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-07 22:13 ` Karl Berry
2011-12-10 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-12 21:33 bug#2975: `texinfo-master-menu' doesn't work Alan Mackenzie
2011-12-10 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <837h24mwfs.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20111211173859.GA2755@acm.acm>
2011-12-11 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-12 12:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-12-12 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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