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Re: Compatibility with older Info browsers
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: Compatibility with older Info browsers
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:22:07 +1000
- CC: shebs at apple dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <200004272043.QAA25582@indy.delorie.com>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> It turns out that makeinfo from Texinfo 4.0 produces Info files that
> are incompatible with older Info readers, even if the Texinfo sources
> don't use any features introduced with Texinfo 4.0.
>
> The problem happens because Texinfo 4.0 uses the new Ref: tag for
> footnote nodes, and old Info readers choke when they see Ref:.
> The only way out of this mess is to use makeinfo 3.12 when preparing
> the distribution :-(.
Thanks for the warning.
A quick check shows I'm using makeinfo 3.12f which should be safe.
Andrew