To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Info - problem reading about istream
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980219113220 DOT 11716A-100000 AT is>
	<34EF2F96 DOT D5F50DD1 AT gmx DOT net> <6crb53$s9i AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 23 Feb 1998 12:40:22 +0200
In-Reply-To: ao950@FreeNet.Carleton.CA's message of 23 Feb 1998 08:14:27 GMT
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes:

> Uhm... the colon with special meaning always seems to be the last; or else
> it is two colons together, and they are the last colons.
> 
> Can't that be used to distinguish which?

Menu items have two forms:

* arbitrary text: node name[\n\t,.]
* node name::

Cross references have similar forms except that they begin with "*note"
instead of "*".

So node names could have `:' in them, but not `::'. Also periods should
not appear in node names, because `(info.inf)Menus' explicitly says that
menu items of the first kind may be ended with a period.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/