> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 20:54:39 +0100
> 
> Does it sound like a good idea to separate the warning code from the
> code updating the structure?  If we could do this, I feel like I would
> have a good chance of being able to write structure-checking code that
> didn't produce so many warnings.
> 
> The focus would be on reporting problems with menus, with the assumption
> that the error is in the menus (user forgot to update the menus or didn't
> update them correctly) and not the sectioning structure inferred from
> the order of nodes in the input file.

I think this would be a very good improvement.  As things are now,
without knowing that prev/next/up pointers are deduced from menus, it
is impossible to understand these error messages, because they are
talking about node pointers that simply aren't there!

Thanks.

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