Re: [Texi2html-bug] texi2html not handling node names with parentheses

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:53:50PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Hi Patrice,
> Although the texinfo manual says that one cannot use parentheses in a node 
> name (e.g. "@node Node (with parentheses)"), makeinfo, makeinfo --html and 
> texi2pdf correctly process them. Unfortunately, texi2html does not. It 
> generates lots of warnings and no links to those nodes. Attached is a sample 
> file with the output generated by texi2html. 
> 
> The warnings produced by texi2html are:
> 
> Bug: Section (nodename with parentheses), target undef

Thanks for the report. The fix was in fact quite easy since for an
external node the parenthesis should only have matched when at the node 
beginning.

Still, something like

@node (manual)node 

leads to similar warning and rather incorrect output. But it isn't a
real issue since makeinfo also complains and leads to somewhat incorrect
output.

I have done a test case based on your examples, with the
(manual)node also, and added to the TODO. The test case is in
Tests/formatting/nodename_parentheses.texi

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Pat