On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:37:27PM +, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> PS Maybe consider adding a --strict flag or somesuch, which will warn
> about "things that are invalid but which are normally silently
> accepted for historical reasons"...
>
> I'm not a fan of generic options
Info, but humans can still get to the
right place by hand. And they do work in TeX, HTML, etc. Hence they
are not completely useless, hence always warning about them seems like
overkill.
Subject: Warn about invalid index entries
Another issue is that although in Emacs you might be able to r
PS Maybe consider adding a --strict flag or somesuch, which will warn
about "things that are invalid but which are normally silently
accepted for historical reasons"...
Hi,
The Texinfo manual says:
Caution: Do not use a colon in an index entry. In Info, a colon
separates the menu entry name from the node name, so a colon in
the entry itself confuses Info.
Yet makeinfo happily accepts such index entries with no complaint.
(For example, I have jus
