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Because of the Texinfo anchor syntax, some characters are very problematic (or even completely prohibited) in anchor names. In order to provide robust anchors, Declt transforms those characters into Unicode alternatives, resembling the original ones, but not quite the same. This is normally not a problem, but you may get bitten by this if you ever happen to attempt a copy/paste operation from an Info anchor or an HTML hyperlink (PDF links are fine): while the link may look like the original Lisp symbol, some characters will actually be different. More specifically, dots, commas, colons, parentheses, and backslashes will be replaced by close Unicode symbols. Additionally, the ampersand is turned upside down, so this one will be noticeable…