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Re: Colons in indices
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Colons in indices |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:26:26 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:23:43 -0400
>
> However, the idea of escaping colons seems promising. The @ character
> is what comes to mind whenever you need anything escaped in Texinfo,
> since everything else (besides {}) is allowed except in special
> circumstances. So a node named foo:bar would become
>
> * foo@:bar:: this is a menu entry for the foo:bar node.
>
> And source like @pxref{foo:bar}
> would produce output like (*note foo@:bar::.).
>
> Or for foo::bar --
> * foo@:@:bar: double foo description: another menu entry.
What do you do with a node whose name is foo@:bar? Produce foo@@:bar?
One problem with these quotations is that you can no longer find these
cross references and menu items by searching for the literal node
name.
Re: Colons in indices, karl, 2001/04/11
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