From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [doc patch] Move @menu to end of @node (Auto-loading)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1SCdBj-0005tb-85@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327203321.GA28113@host2.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:33:21 +0200)
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:33:21 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
> info '(texinfo)Menu Location'
>
> # A menu must be located at the end of a node, without any regular text
> # or additional commands between the `@end menu' and the beginning of the
> # next node. (As a consequence, there may be at most one menu in a node.)
> #
> # This is actually a useful restriction, since a reader who uses the
> # menu could easily miss any such text. Technically, it is necessary
> # because in Info format, there is no marker for the end of a menu, so
> # Info-reading programs would have no way to know when the menu ends and
> # normal text resumes.
>
> This is violated at multiple places in gdb.texinfo. But I see no problem from
> that, info command displays it properly, also tested PDF (no menus) and HTML
> (working menus).
>
> So maybe I can just drop this patch, the menu looks better in the first part.
It is better to be compliant, so please do commit this.
Thanks.
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2012-03-27 20:33 Jan Kratochvil
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2012-03-27 20:45 ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
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