Ability to disable URL mangling in makeinfo 4.7?

[Karl Berry]

    Yes, that'd be very useful!

Ok, we can work on that.  (Alper, if you feel like it, go for it...)

    Are we restricted to the set of a-z0-9_- also for anchors?  Given our
    experience, all web clients seem to support at least '*' as well.

I can believe that other characters are supported in anchor names
(although I thought that XML had very restrictive rules).  In any case,
it seems simpler to map a node name to the same string, whether it is
used as an anchor name or a filename, instead of having different rules.

    If '-' is part of the supported set of characters, why do you rewrite
    that as well?  Could this be avoided?

The problem is that we use - to map spaces.  So it can't also be used
for itself.  This is probably the most annoying thing about the new
scheme, but otherwise "node-name" and "node name" would map to the same
target.  Doesn't seem good.  I think there may have even been a case or
two in practice.

Hope you enjoy your time away from the computers ...

karl