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Re: pxref
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: pxref |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:06:00 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:03:40 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Specifically, in the new Info default, @xref does not always produce a
> capitalized "See". This means a change in documentation.
>
> Sorry, I have no background for and don't understand any of this. How
> can such a fundamental thing about Texinfo be changed? Who did it and
> why? Why should "Info" (do you mean info.el?) be downcasing/upcasing
> "See" (last I knew it was *[nN]ote" in Info, anyway, not "[sS]ee"])?
>
> As far as I know neither makeinfo nor texinfo.tex have changed in this
> regard. Also, it is not feasible to change texinfo.tex in any such way,
> if I'm understanding right. (Messing with stuff based on surrounding
> text.)
Karl, you are absolutely right: there's no need to change anything in
Texinfo. There's a huge misunderstanding here, mainly due to the fact
that Bob insists on saying that some ``new Info default'' changed what
@xref produces.
The reality is that @xref still produces the same output as it did
_in_the_Info_file, except that the Emacs Info reader displays the
leading "*Note" as "[Ss]ee", and hides the explicit reference to the
Info node and file, leaving just the reference name. This was done to
make the cross-references look more like hyperlinks in other GUI
applications.
This is only a display trickery; info.el does not change the text read
from the Info file, it just uses the Emacs display features to display
certain text as a something different. Thus, if one copies from the
buffer to another one, they will still see the same "*Note" and the
full cross-reference as makeinfo produces.
- Re: pxref, (continued)
- Re: pxref, Karl Berry, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Karl Berry, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Karl Berry, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/10/28
- Re: pxref, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/10/28
- Re: pxref, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/29
- Re: pxref, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/10/28
- Re: pxref, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/29
- Re: pxref,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: pxref, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/27
- Re: pxref, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/10/25
- Re: pxref, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/25
- Re: pxref, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/23