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Broken link to Geiser User Manual

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Subject: bug#55290: closed (Re: bug#55290: Broken link to Geiser User Manual)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:20:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#55290: Broken link to Geiser User Manual

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 55290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: 55290-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55290: Broken link to Geiser User Manual
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:19:33 -0400

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Greg,
>
> Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com> writes:
>
>> At [1] the link in "see Introduction in Geiser User Manual" points to [2]
>> but should link to [3].
>>
>> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/The-Perfect-Setup.html
>> [2] http://geiser.nongnu.org/Introduction.html#Introduction
>> [3] https://geiser.nongnu.org/geiser_1.html#Introduction
>
> Thanks for reporting this; as Ludovic hinted on #guix, this appears to
> be a discrepancy between the file layout produced by makeinfo (used by
> Guix) vs texi2html (used by Geiser).  This problem is briefly mentioned
> in info "(texinfo)HTML Xref Mismatch".
>
> It seems 'makeinfo' should be preferred these days, since it's now
> become enough configurable and appears more actively maintained.  I've
> sent a patch to Geiser to do the switch, if they accept it this problem
> should be resolved [0].
>
> [0]  https://gitlab.com/emacs-geiser/geiser/-/merge_requests/8
>
> To be followed.

Fixed.  The Geiser documentation is now generated via 'makeinfo' rather
than 'texi2html'.

Thanks for the report!

Closing.

Maxim

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From: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Broken link to Geiser User Manual
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 14:28:39 -0400

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At [1] the link in "see Introduction in Geiser User Manual" points to [2]
but should link to [3].

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/The-Perfect-Setup.html
[2] http://geiser.nongnu.org/Introduction.html#Introduction
[3] https://geiser.nongnu.org/geiser_1.html#Introduction

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