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Re: Colons in indices
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karl |
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Re: Colons in indices |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:23:43 -0400 |
foo::::bar: The foo-bar node
I don't think doubling colons is the best approach, because doubled
colons are already used in menu entries and xrefs, so disambiguating a
single escaped colon from a legitimate use of a double colon seems
difficult at best.
However, the idea of escaping colons seems promising. The @ character
is what comes to mind whenever you need anything escaped in Texinfo,
since everything else (besides {}) is allowed except in special
circumstances. So a node named foo:bar would become
* foo@:bar:: this is a menu entry for the foo:bar node.
And source like @pxref{foo:bar}
would produce output like (*note foo@:bar::.).
Or for foo::bar --
* foo@:@:bar: double foo description: another menu entry.
What do you think of that idea?
Re: Colons in indices,
karl <=
Re: Colons in indices, karl, 2001/04/12
Re: Colons in indices, karl, 2001/04/13