Re: Info mode misformats menu entries with refs in description

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Hello Tim,
> 
> Thanks for your report.  rms asked me to work on it.
> 
>     The bison manual for version 1.875 contains a menu entry (Pure Calling)
>     that has a @pxref in its description.  While standalone info handles
>     this just fine, it seems to cause the emacs Info reader to justify
>     the menu block as a paragraph, losing menu functionality.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce this in the released 21.3, in either the
> bison manual or your standalone example.

Tim is using the emacs CVS head version (21.3.50.x), not the released 21.3.

In that version, info text contaning xrefs is reformatted if the xref
hiding feature is enabled (the default).  I guess Tim's example shows
a case where that algorithm is too "greedy", reformatting an entire
menu block as a paragraph.

I was planning to look into this when I get the time, but if someone else
wants to take a look at it, I'd appreciate it.

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Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk