> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 20:41:14 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]> > > On 3 July 2015 at 20:51, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to propose that when @-commands that produce decoration > >> around text are used in node names or index entries, the decoration is > >> suppressed. > > > > I think you will take away a feature if you do that: some @-commands > > change the output in ways that cannot be given up without losing > > something. > > Which @-commands did you have in mind? I've made @emph, @strong, @sub > and @sup be kept, and also anything defined with @definfoenclose. I'm > not sure what's the best.
Also those that insert non-ASCII characters. Even @sc, I think. > Eli > This has come up before, so I suggest to look up past discussions, > > around the time the option mentioned below was introduced. > > > >> For comparison, the output of makeinfo 4.13 (using the --force option): > > > > Btw, makeinfo 4.13 has the --commands-in-node-names for this. > > --commands-in-node-names was in texinfo 4.0 released September 1999, > and --force in 3.11, in July 1997. The mail archives at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/ only go back to > September 2000. I'll try to dig into my mail archives, maybe I will find something.
