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Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct
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Alan |
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Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:11:12 -0800 (PST) |
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The texinfo construct "@anchor" is used extensively in the texi files that go
into making the info file "perldoc-all.info".
(See http://www.gnu.org/software/perl/manual/)
The documentation for @anchor in the texinfo Info file led me to believe that a
cross reference to an anchor name would jump to that location in the info file.
I find this not to be the case. The jump seems to be to the node location
where the @anchor statement is found. This is different from inserting a
@cindex index entry name next to the @anchor statment; in that case the defined
index name goes directly to the location of the @cindex.
The observed behavior for @anchor makes it much less useful that I had
anticipated.
As an example in "perldoc-all.info", do '(Info-goto-node "perlfunc package
NAMESPACE")'. You will end up at the top of the alphabetical list of the perl
functions--instead at the location of the anchor for "package NAMESPACE" (see
the file perlfunc.texi).
- Disappointed by texinfo @anchor construct,
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