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Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct


From: Alan
Subject: Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:39:37 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Sunday, November 16, 2014 9:11:14 PM UTC-6, Alan wrote:
> The texinfo construct "@anchor" is used extensively in the texi files that go 
> into making the info file "perldoc-all.info".
> 
> (See http://www.gnu.org/software/perl/manual/)
> 
> The documentation for @anchor in the texinfo Info file led me to believe that 
> a cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that location in the info 
> file.  I find this not to be the case.  The jump seems to be to the node 
> location where the @anchor statement is found.  This is different from 
> inserting a @cindex index entry name next to the @anchor statment; in that 
> case the defined index name goes directly to the location of the @cindex.
> 
> The observed behavior for @anchor makes it much less useful that I had 
> anticipated.
> 
> As an example in "perldoc-all.info", do '(Info-goto-node "perlfunc package 
> NAMESPACE")'.  You will end up at the top of the alphabetical list of the 
> perl functions--instead at the location of the anchor for "package NAMESPACE" 
> (see the file perlfunc.texi).

If I start up Emacs with no initialization file then reference to an anchor 
works properly--i.e. as described in the texinfo Info file.  So, the problem is 
something that needs fixing in my initialization file.


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