Re: ifnottex?

[Masao Uebayashi]

> Aha.  From
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00904.html:
> 
> -------------------8<--------------------
> The problem with @ifnottex in Texinfo 3.12 are actually a
> bug/misfeature in that version: conditionals such as @ifnottex cannot
> span node boundaries.  Here's a ChangeLog entry from the latest
> Texinfo distribution:
> 
>   Sun Nov 29 17:12:35 1998  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>  [...]
>         * makeinfo/insertion.c (discard_insertions): Let any conditional
>         cross node boundary.  (So the @top node can be wrapped
>         in @ifnottex, for example.)
> 
> This was done during the (long) pretest of Texinfo 4.0.
> -------------------8<--------------------
> 
> Let me think about whether we can avoid using @ifnottex across these
> node boundaries.

Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned the makeinfo version I'm
using. 3.12, yes, NetBSD still has it in the main source.

Thanks for the fix. :)

Masao

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