On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 09:28:02PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Node specifications:
>>
>> Use the same method as Next etc. in node lines. E.g. "*see
>> :," would become "*see :" if
>> contained forbidden characters.
>
> The ne
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 09:28:02PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Node specifications:
>
> Use the same method as Next etc. in node lines. E.g. "*see
> :," would become "*see :" if
> contained forbidden characters.
The needs to be quoted too, if it contains a ̀:'. Should the
same quo
The quoting syntax used for images is intended to be extensible in the
obvious way to any other use. I think the node quoting should use it
too. The control character sequence it uses (^@^H) was chosen to
minimize the chance of affecting any terminal output in browsers that
don't recognize it. N
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:49:39 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
>
> > It's okay not to solve the cases where an Info file use ^_ (I don't
> > think you will find any of these, for this very reason). But I don't
> > think we can just disregard the control characters that do
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That's better, IMO. I think we already use ^? for different purposes
> (in the Tag Table), though. Not sure if that matters, but see below.
>
^? characters would only be inter
>> I.e., no quoting of file names at all, and quoting node name
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:05:47 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Backwards compatibility:
> >>
> >> These would not work in old browsers, but references like these don't
> >> work any way.
> >
> > They don't work
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Backwards compatibility:
>>
>> These would not work in old browsers, but references like these don't
>> work any way.
>
> They don't work as references, but they are still readable. Your
> suggestion, which uses control characters, will req
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:28:02 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith
>
> I have seen in the mailing list archives that there has been
> discussion of allowing characters like colons in node names and
> indices over the years. It would be useful for languages like C++ or
> anywhere else.
>
> The idea that
Hello,
I have seen in the mailing list archives that there has been
discussion of allowing characters like colons in node names and
indices over the years. It would be useful for languages like C++ or
anywhere else.
The idea that was floated was to have some kind of quoting in Info
format. See, e
