AW: problems with display of info files in emacs

[Rubey Martin]

Many thanks for looking at this!

> What version of Texinfo and what version of Emacs did you use?

(makeinfo was invoked as "makeinfo --no-split")

address@hidden:~$ makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 5.2

Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

address@hidden:~$ info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 5.2

Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

address@hidden:~$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.4.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

> Also, I think we need to see the portions of the Info file that are
> treated as footnote links.

in the info file:
=============================================

5.1.6 Alternating Sign Matrices
-------------------------------

AUTHORS:

   - Mike Hansen (2007): Initial version

   - Pierre Cange, Luis Serrano (2012): Added monotone triangles

   - Travis Scrimshaw (2013-28-03): Added element class for ASM’s and
     made *note MonotoneTriangles: 221. inherit from *note
     GelfandTsetlinPatterns: 1fe.

   - Jessica Striker (2013): Added additional methods

 -- Class: sage.combinat.alternating_sign_matrix.AlternatingSignMatrices
          (n, use_monotone_triangles=None)

=============================================
in the texi file:

=============================================
@c nodoctest

@node Alternating Sign Matrices,Backtracking,Combinatorics features that are 
imported by default in the interpreter namespace,Comprehensive Module list
@anchor{sage/combinat/alternating_sign_matrix 
address@hidden@anchor{sage/combinat/alternating_sign_matrix 
address@hidden@anchor{sage/combinat/alternating_sign_matrix address@hidden
@subsection Alternating Sign Matrices


@c This file has been autogenerated.
@anchor{sage/combinat/alternating_sign_matrix module-sage combinat 
address@hidden
@geindex sage.combinat.alternating_sign_matrix (module)

AUTHORS:


@itemize -

@item 
Mike Hansen (2007): Initial version

@item 
Pierre Cange, Luis Serrano (2012): Added monotone triangles

@item 
Travis Scrimshaw (2013-28-03): Added element class for ASM's and made
@ref{221,,MonotoneTriangles} inherit from @ref{1fe,,GelfandTsetlinPatterns}

@item 
Jessica Striker (2013): Added additional methods
@end itemize

@geindex AlternatingSignMatrices (class in 
sage.combinat.alternating_sign_matrix)
@anchor{sage/combinat/alternating_sign_matrix sage combinat 
alternating_sign_matrix address@hidden
@deffn {Class} sage.combinat.alternating_sign_matrix.AlternatingSignMatrices 
(n, use_monotone_triangles=None)
=============================================

One more thing: I just noticed that when using "info", footnotes are not turned 
into links at all.  For example:

texi:

=============================================
@c %**start of body
@anchor{index address@hidden
Welcome to Sage's Reference Manual!

This manual is a thematic index of all of 
Sage'address@hidden://www.sagemath.org/}
features. It also contains many examples that illustrate their use, all of them
systematically tested with each release.

Enjoy Sage!

@menu
* User Interface:: 
* Graphics:: 
* Mathematics:: 
* Programming:: 
* General Information:: 

@end menu
=============================================

info:
=============================================
Sage Reference Manual
*********************

     Sage Reference Manual 7.4, Oct 20, 2016

     Copyright © 2005–2016, The Sage Development Team

Welcome to Sage’s Reference Manual!

This manual is a thematic index of all of Sage’s(1) features.  It also
contains many examples that illustrate their use, all of them
systematically tested with each release.

Enjoy Sage!

* Menu:

* User Interface:: 
* Graphics:: 
* Mathematics:: 
* Programming:: 
* General Information:: 

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) http://www.sagemath.org/
=============================================

There is not much markup around the footnote, is there?