> Now I understand, I think.  You're saying the calc manual explicitly has
> that \turnoffactive, not that texinfo.tex does.

Right.  Sorry if I was unclear.

> If that's right, the best thing to do is certainly to remove it from the
> calc manual.  If problems result, then let me know and we'll go from
> there.

Okay.  I thought that maybe there was an obvious reason why
"\turnoffactive" was being used by calc.texi, but...

>     and what advantages there might be using
>     "\turnoffactive" in a TeX block.
>
> I can only surmise it was needed to work around some other bug in @tex,
> many moons ago.  I don't recall ever seeing any discussion about it from
> Dave Gillespie or any other calc folks.

... apparently not.  But I'll do a visual check to make sure removing it
doesn't cause problems.

Sorry about the noise, then.

Jay

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