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Re: CR-LF line endings in Texinfo files (was texinfo-6.3.90 pretest)
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: CR-LF line endings in Texinfo files (was texinfo-6.3.90 pretest) |
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Wed, 17 May 2017 05:19:56 +0300 |
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 22:05:41 +0100
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
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> On 16 May 2017 at 20:06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 19:29:48 +0100
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> >> Note: Info files with CR-LF line endings should carry on being
> >> supported. on all operating systems.
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> > But actually, they aren't supported on any OS. That's why we changed
> > texi2any to emit Unix-style LF-only EOLs a while back, remember?
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> They shouldn't be generated but info can still read them.
Info can indeed read them, but cross-references to anchors don't work
correctly then. They land the reader at the wrong place, because byte
counts don't match. This started happening some versions ago, because
of some change whose details I no longer remember.