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Re: makeinfo 7.1 misses menu errors


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: makeinfo 7.1 misses menu errors
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:06:32 +0200

> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:30:33 -0700
> From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
> 
> Hi Gavin,
> 
>     The problem as I remember it was that the error messages are awful:
> 
> No argument, but having any message at all is infinitely better than
> silence. I urge you to restore them by default, suboptimal as they are.
> 
> It's true that those msgs as such have never made a great deal of sense
> to me (including in the old C makeinfo). But they indicate perfectly
> well "there is a problem with the sectioning+menus related to node XYZ".
> It was not hard to figure it out once I knew that. I had no clue there
> was a problem until someone using makeinfo 6.x told me.

I agree.  Perhaps by default makeinfo should just display a general
warning about "some problem with sectioning vs menus", with a pointer
to the offending @menu command, and the warning text should advise to
use "-c CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE=1" to get the details.  WDYT?



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