Re: Info mode misformats menu entries with refs in description

[Kim F. Storm]

This problem should be fixed by my patch as well.

Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

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> 
> The bison manual for version 1.875 contains a menu entry (Pure Calling)
> that has a @pxref in its description.  While standalone info handles
> this just fine, it seems to cause the emacs Info reader to justify
> the menu block as a paragraph, losing menu functionality.
> 
> Note that standalone info does have a quirk related to such refs - when
> they are selected, info will jump to the menu entry's node, not the node
> specified in the ref.
> 
> The problem can be reproduced by this simple TeXinfo file:
> 
> >>> start of snippet
> \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
> @setfilename foo.info
> @settitle Hello World
> 
> @finalout
> 
> @node Top
> @top
> 
> @menu
> * hello::             blah blah (@pxref{world, ,foo}).
> * world::             more blah-di-blah.
> @end menu
> 
> @node hello
> @unnumbered Hello
> 
> Hello
> 
> @node world
> @unnumbered World
> 
> World
> 
> @bye
> >>> end of snippet
> 
> In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>  of 2003-04-16 on leeloo
> configured using `configure '--with-png' '--with-tiff' '--with-jpeg' 
> '--with-gif' '--prefix=/opt/gcc3' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''
> 
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