Re: [21.5] packaging.texi has illegal node names

Darryl> [ I'm not sure where to send this, and so I'm sending it Darryl> here. Should I Good choice. Darryl> submit a formal report (e.g., w/Installation, etc.), Darryl> even though this is documentation-related? ] Not for me. It should be independent of your installation, right? Bug reports are most useful to narrow in on a problem, but this problem seems to be obvious. Darryl> In man/lispref/packaging.texi, node names like the following exist: Darryl> The User's View Darryl> The Library Maintainer's View Darryl> Unfortunately, texinfo has the strange requirement that node names Darryl> cannot have apostrophes; from the texinfo manual: Darryl> * You cannot use commas or apostrophes within a node name; these Darryl> confuse TeX or the Info formatters. Good golly! What a GNUisance (sorry, I couldn't resist). Darryl> I also suspect that this limitation also applies to Darryl> chapter and section (etc.) names, as I'm getting TeX Darryl> errors when trying to format the lispref manual. Hmmh, that requirement is nowhere to be found in the texinfo manual. I'll take a look at this for 21.5 since it may fix some HTML manual breakage, as generated by texi2html. Best regards, Adrian Darryl> -- Darryl> Darryl Okahata Darryl> darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com Darryl> DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not Darryl> constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or Darryl> of the little green men that have been following him all day. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/