Re: FAQ format

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Mar-2009, Rik wrote:

| I tend to agree with Søren that whatever works is probably good enough
| for the FAQ. 
| 
| One suggestion, it sounds like there is an internal limit on the number
| of characters used in a menu name/node identifier.  One way around that
| would be to use the long form of the menu entry command.  According to
| the Texinfo documentation a menu has the form:
| * MENU-ENTRY-NAME: NODE-NAME.   DESCRIPTION
| 
| Most of the time this is abbreviated to
| * MENU_ENTRY-NAME::
| where the node and the menu name are the same.
| 
| You might try
| * My extravagantly long question about life, the universe, and
| everything?: short_node_name
| 
| The destination link would have to be called short_node_name but it
| might work around your issue.

This works, so I'm using this method for now, but may still switch to
a simpler plain-text-like format in the future since that will likely
be easier to maintain, and should be good enough for the FAQ.

Thanks!

jwe