Re: comma in @node or @float line

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> 30 May 2004 08:36:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
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> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:28:19 -0400
> From: [email protected] (Karl Berry)
> 
> As for the hypothetical future, I am really not sure.  It's obviously
> only an issue when commands are allowed in node names, which right now
> they're not.  
> 
> One problem is that I'm not too sure what algorithm will work.  Given
> the need to parse a node line into @node a,b,c,d how do you determine
> where the commas are?

How about implementing an escape feature?  Then you could say
something like

    @node a\,b\,c,d

(IIRC, this is already implemented in macros at least.)

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