Merry Christmas ! First, I have to assume that the latest released version of texinfo is 4.0b, since it's what is shipped by Redhat Linux 7.2 and the closest release I can find from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ is 4.0 (which is quite dated).
I stepped across this bug by reading http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html with Konqueror 2.2.1, which doesn't render the page correctly. I discovered it was because of unclosed <a> tags, which was confirmed by http://validator.w3c.org/. Indeed, the end tag of the A element is required (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2). Hence this patch. After applying this patch, the tested page becomes http://insomnia.nexen.net/tmp/configure.html. W3C's validator doesn't report the <a> errors anymore, although it would appreciate a good character encoding (iso-8859-1 for instance) and a proper DOCTYPE declaration, like this for instance : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Free your mind</TITLE> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> ----------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------ diff -uNr texinfo-4.0b.orig/ChangeLog texinfo-4.0b/ChangeLog --- texinfo-4.0b.orig/ChangeLog Tue May 1 21:46:05 2001 +++ texinfo-4.0b/ChangeLog Tue Dec 25 22:27:01 2001 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-12-25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * makeinfo/sectioning.c: </a> is required even for <a name="[...]"> + 2001-05-01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.in: 4.0b --- texinfo-4.0b.orig/makeinfo/sectioning.c Tue May 1 18:28:28 2001 +++ texinfo-4.0b/makeinfo/sectioning.c Tue Dec 25 21:46:35 2001 @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ if (!current_node || !*current_node) { starting_pos = output_paragraph + output_paragraph_offset; - add_word_args ("<a name=\"TOC%d\">", toc_ref_count++); + add_word_args ("<a name=\"TOC%d\"></a>", toc_ref_count++); toc_anchor = substring (starting_pos + 9, output_paragraph + output_paragraph_offset); } ----------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
