Re: texinfo: warning: @anchor should not appear on @item line

Am 18.03.24 um 19:13 schrieb Patrice Dumas:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 01:24:23PM +0100, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
>> In a texi file, I have a table where each item should get an anchor:
>>
>> @table @code
>>
>> @item @anchor{label1}label1
>> Text1
>>
>> @item @anchor{label2}label2
>> Text2
>>
>> @end table
>>
>> What's the proper way to set an anchor for an item?
>> The item should not be out-of-screen when following a generated link.
>>
>> As for the texinfo version; I don't have control over that because I am
>> not the owner of the project; I am just adding (small parts of) the
>> documentation.
>>
>> I fount thread
>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2023-11/msg00004.html
>>
>> so is that warning problem already fixed in recent revisions?
> 
> In my tests it seems so.  If a @vtable is used instead of a @table and
> a printindex is used too, there are two <a> generated for the anchor,
> but it does not seems to me to problematic.  More problematic is that
> there is no visible link to the index entry generated in the @printindex
> formatting, which could be investigated.

Hi Patrice,

thanks for the swift answer.  In my specific case it is only about
@table @code.  If I understand you correctly, then this was a glitch
in texinfo, and not that @anchor and @item are fundamentally
incompatible.  That's good to hear.

Johann