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bug#24754: problems with footnotes and a bug with links in emacs info
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24754: problems with footnotes and a bug with links in emacs info |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:01:27 +0300 |
> From: Rubey Martin <martin.rubey@tuwien.ac.at>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:42:23 +0000
>
> 1.) problem with footnotes:
>
> select the fourth menu node
>
> The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
>
> right at the beginning you will see
>
> =========================================
> AUTHORS:
>
> - Thierry Monteil (2012-02-10 – 2013-06-21): initial version.
>
> - Vincent Delecroix (2014): modifies continued fractions because of
> trac ticket #14567(1)
>
> - Moritz Firsching (2016): modifies handling of dead sequence, see
> trac ticket #17330(2)
> =========================================
>
> and both (2014) and (2016) are interpreted by emacs-info as links.
>
> I learned that this is actually mandated by the specification, but I think it
> would be important to be able to switch off footnote links, or, even better,
> improve them such that makeinfo either escapes non-footnote occurrences of
> "(12345)", or uses a less easily confused markup.
>
> Note that in this project (sagemath, a large gpl computer algebra system)
> non-footnote occurrences of (1), (2) and (3) are very very frequent, but
> footnotes are used, too. Therefore, navigating to footnote (1) and clicking
> on it will send you anywhere.
This was fixed today on the master branch of the Emacs Git repository.
> 2.) A bug with links. Go back to top, and then visit the node
>
> FindStat - the Combinatorial Statistic Finder
>
> you should see in line 29 the link
>
> To access the database, use *note findstat: 7a.:
>
> but clicking on it does not send me to the line beginning with
>
> Class sage.databases.findstat.FindStat
>
> but a little below. This problem is much worse in other, larger examples.
This was already fixed in Emacs 25.1.