Re: proposal for html manual cross links

"Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:42:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
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> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:16:22 +0100
> From: Dumas Patrice <[email protected]>
> 
> Hum. I am not certain about what it means for the cross manual references.
> My first thought would be to consider that the ascii equivalent representation
> should be used, in order to disambiguate as far as possible.

Yes, something like that.  In effect, we should have a special
expansion of @-commands into plain ASCII for node names, and use the
results to compare them.

But I'm not sure this is practical to implement.

> Anyway at least we can be sure that there remains only 3 cases which are, 
> in my opinion not settled:
> 
> things like
>    @equiv
>    ==
> 
> like
>    @u{A}
>    A(
> 
> and
>    my node
>    @b{my node}
> 
> I have no idea about what is the right thing.

I think they should be treated as identical.
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