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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.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-27 20:33 Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-27 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-03-27 20:45   ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil

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