Gavin Smith wrote: > Even if Info mode and the standalone Info browser are changed to > support colons in index entries, people running older versions of these > won't be able to read them.
Sure. However, if Texinfo is intending to support them from version X, IMO it should document that. > However, texi2any does output the colon in the index entry without > complaint. Personally I think this is a bug, but Texinfo's previous maintainer disagreed about what warnings were appropriate. http://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2014-02/msg00029.html
