Re: Info bug with @xref{Sample .emacs File, , , ccmode, the CC Mode Manual}.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:37:49 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> Whilst amending programs.texi (to incorporate changes from CC Mode 5.31),
> I hit a problem with Info.  I've inserted the cross reference:
> 
>     @xref{Sample .emacs File,,, ccmode, the CC Mode Manual}.
> 
> , and makeinfo'd it.  When I load the info file, this xref fails with the
> error message "No such node or anchor: Sample".  [BTW: on the same
> file.info, Emacs 21.3 says much the same: "No such anchor in tag table or
> node in tag table or file: Sample".]

The problem here is with your usage of Texinfo: node names cannot
contain periods.  The Texinfo manual says:

   * Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or
     parentheses within a node name; these confuse the Texinfo
     processors.  Perhaps this limitation will be removed some day, too.

So there you are: don't do that ;-)