When I use the command line 'emacs file.info' I cannot see the file, but I can open it in emacs I can see everything, including the menu even though I put @ignore around the menu.
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: @menu puts too many restrictions to produce the .info file > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 05:21:05PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Christopher Dimech <[email protected]> > > > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:07:04 +0100 > > > Sensitivity: Normal > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > What gets me most frustrated is that when I introduce @bye > > > somewhere within the document, makeinfo goes nuts. @bye > > > is a great command to use when texi2pdf is unsuccessful > > > so I may investigate. Makeinfo does not give me that possibility. > > > If I remove the menu but there are references in the document, > > > the info file is not generated. > > > > Instead of @bye use @ignore..@end ignore. > > > > I think that would still lead to many errors about missing nodes and > so on. > > If you used the --force option, it's possible the file would be > generated anyway. Also, some hard errors about menus were turned > recently into warnings. > > Using the -c SHOW_MENU=0 option may get rid of some of the warnings, > at the cost of not outputting the menus. >
