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Problematic characters in info node names

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 52126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Protesilaos Stavrou <info <at> protesilaos.com>, Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
Subject: bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:17:32 -0500

Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Did something change here since the above note in admin/release-process
> was written in 2013 (commit 16bcc96df4)?

Yes. It's easy to find old versions of the Texinfo manual, eg
http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/texinfo/Node-Line-Requirements.html

Newer Texinfo is less strict, but Emacs configure still claims to
support 4.13.

> (Though I can't see any warnings produced when running "make info" in a
> fresh tree.)

It never did warn about such things; it made no sense to me.

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2013-08/msg00008.html

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