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Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct
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Alan |
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Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct |
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Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:39:37 -0800 (PST) |
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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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- Re: Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct, Alan, 2014/11/20
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