Re: Texinfo macros and m4

2011-08-25 Thread Karl Berry
Well, up to now it is possible (in almost all cases) to process texinfo documents with TeXLive out of the box to get a PDF, Well, not exactly (see below), but in any case, as far as I can see nothing in this regard changes by introducing an optional call to m4. First, virtually no Texinfo

Re: backslash no longer works in indices

2011-08-25 Thread Karl Berry
This is *really* disappointing! Yes, I know. Sorry. To be completely truthful, I also am continually disappointed ... by the extremely extensive use of @macro -- going far, far, far, beyond anything that was ever envisioned. Brian hacked a @macro command into makeinfo without (evidently)

Re: Difficulties with texi2dvi. Help, please!

2011-08-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, James. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:20:04PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > > "AM" == Alan Mackenzie writes: > AM> I'm running on a newish, up to date Gentoo Gnu/Linux system. I type: > AM> $ texi2dvi -V --tidy cc-mode.texi > AM> and it fails to produce output or give an error message.