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Problem with citation in info

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Message #10 received at 10505-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 10505-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10505: Problem with citation in info
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:53:53 +0100

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> coreutils.texi says:
>
> An earlier version of this chapter appeared in
> @uref{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2762, the
> @cite{What's GNU?} column of @cite{Linux Journal}, 2 (June, 1994)}.
>
> But in coreutils.info this comes out as just
>
> An earlier version of this chapter appeared in 2 (June 1994).

Thanks for the proofreading and report, here's a patch:

From 1d615494332c2d445b0b57c5e902abe3f40b6580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:52:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: tweak a @uref so its alt reference text renders in info

* doc/coreutils.texi (Opening the software toolbox): Remove commas
from @uref argument, so the alternate text renders properly in info.
Reported by Reuben Thomas.
---
 doc/coreutils.texi |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 8cdc26d..685de20 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -16242,7 +16242,7 @@ Opening the software toolbox

 An earlier version of this chapter appeared in
 @uref{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2762, the
-@cite{What's GNU?} column of @cite{Linux Journal}, 2 (June, 1994)}.
+@cite{What's GNU?} column of the June 1994 @cite{Linux Journal}}.
 It was written by Arnold Robbins.

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