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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:24:48 +0000
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Subject: Re: A question (and suggestion) about RHIDE

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On 12 Mar 1997, George Foot wrote:
> 
> > : Is there a way to edit within RHIDE the info file of a program 'or in my
> > : case the Allegro's one)?
> > 
> > You *can* just load it up, as a text file; it's called allegro.inf in 
> > your info subdirectory. However, the files contain special characters in 
> > places to mark the starts of nodes, for example; you'll have to work out 
> > how to put these in.
> 
> There's one more problem with editing Info files: it invalidates the
> tag table that is used by the Info reader to get to a node given its
> name.  This is not a problem if you only make small changes, because
> Info readers usually search around the tagged place, but large
> deviations (like if you enter or delete a lot of text) can make the
> reader fail to find a node.  
The RHIDE reader will fail if you modify enough text to make the reader to find 
another node before to find the desired node.

> Some Info readers have a command to
> validate an Info file, so you can be sure the edited file still works,
> but I don't know if RHIDE has such an option.
No doesn't exist.

> The correct way to change the Info file is to edit the Texinfo
> *source* of the docs and then run makeinfo.exe on it; this will
> generate the tag tables using the updated source.  The Texinfo sources
> of the docs are in the source distribution of every package (e.g., for
> Make look inside mak375s.zip for files with .texi, .txi or .tex
> extension), and makeinfo.exe should be in your bin/ subdirectory if
> you installed txi390b.zip.
And with it you can make major changes.

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