address@hidden: Re: Colons in indices]

[Martin Grabmueller]

Hello list,

wrt my problems with the manual indices, I have written to
address@hidden  The problem is well-known (see forwarded mail
below), and no workaround exists.  In some follow-ups people on
help-texinfo only suggested incompatible changes to makeinfo, info and
Emacs' info mode.

I think we have to live with that for now, and I'll focus on other
things.

Regards,
  'martin

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:50:43 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
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To: address@hidden
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Subject: Re: Colons in indices
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

> From: Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:24:06 +0200
> 
> I ran into that problem because I was trying to get the function index
> for the Guile Reference Manual working.  Guile has a lot of accessor
> procedures called `stat:size', `status:exit-val etc.  They are
> properly entered into the index, but cannot be accessed, neither in
> Emacs' info mode nor in standalone info.
> 
> Is there any known workaround?

Unfortunately, no.  Manuals about C++ have similar problems.

Any ideas how to allow colons in menu items are welcome.
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