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#70382
29.3; Info-fontify-node renders cross-references misleadingly
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Reported by: matt <at> excalamus.com
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:37:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.3
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: matt <at> excalamus.com, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, 70382 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:43:31 -0400
>
> > I think the only sane way of dealing with this problem is to disable
> > Info-hide-note-references in that particular node (and any other
> > nodes, if we find them, where there's a similar issue). The patch
> > below attempts to do that.
>
> Sounds OK.
OK, I will install this soon, unless Juri (or someone else) comes up
with something more elegant.
> > Juri and Stefan, do you see a cleaner solution?
>
> We could try and detect that the cross ref is within a '...'.
That would fail in other cases.
> BTW, I'm not sure whether the current behavior is really a problem:
> after all, in Emacs, people indeed won't see something of the form
> `*note NAME: NODE.` but they'll see something of the form `see NAME` or
> `See NAME`, so the bug could be considered a feature (depending on
> whether we think the doc describes the content of the Info file or
> whether it describes when readers will see when reading their doc in
> Emacs).
Yes, but here we make worse mistakes: not only we should "see" with
wrong capitalization, we also make the impression that @ref shows as
"see" in Emacs (it doesn't) and @pxref shows "*note" (it shows "see").
(I think the text should have a note that in Emacs these
cross-references will look differently, but that's a patch to be
submitted to the Texinfo developers.)
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