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#2975
`texinfo-master-menu' doesn't work.
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Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:40:06 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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Karl writes:
> Perhaps the description of texinfo-mode would be better off in the Emacs
> manual, instead of the Texinfo manual. (Since it is not maintained as
> part of Texinfo.) I'd be fine with that. Whatever you want to do.
Sounds like a good idea, yes.
Eli writes:
> The simplest fix would be to remove the updating of the @node lines.
> Would anyone object? Karl?
That would be great.
Eli writes:
> I guess I'm saying that the importance of these commands in the
> context of maintaining Emacs documentation is somewhat exaggerated in
> this thread, to say the least ;-)
IIUC the OP is not directly interested in maintaining Emacs
documentation but rather is trying to write a manual for another project
(BBDB, which happens to be an Emacs package).
Eli writes:
> Here's what I see there:
> . texinfo-master-menu indeed does not support multiple-file manuals,
> so it removed all the menu items whose nodes are in files other
> than emacs.texi itself
A good fix here would be for texinfo-master-menu to detect the problem
and signal a warning/error.
> . texinfo-master-menu doesn't grok @iftex and @ifnottext conditionals
> (and probably the other @if... conditionals as well), so it
> produced bad Next and Prev pointers, because, e.g., this:
If leaving Node pointers alone fixes this problem, then there's nothing
else to do, but otherwise texinfo-master-menu should try and detect
these problematic cases and signal an error/warning.
Stefan
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