Ooops... it proved out that I made the trial with a quite old texi2dvi version. Now I have used a more recent one (not yet checked whether this is the latest one) and I could reproduce the problem.
I let you know when I understand why there is one single run. Vincent. >Hello Kurt, > >I think that this ~ thing is a separate problem. That should be >submitted as a tex2dvi bug, I have tried to do that but the bug >submission is closed on savannah for texinfo project (??). > >I have just tried your second test1.tex file, and my texi2dvi does make >two runs, here is the log (please note that I am compiling with the >--pdf option, I have also made a trial w/o it, and it also made two >runs): > > [...]