Re: texinfo.tex change.

[Kim F. Storm]

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 2005-02-08  Kim F. Storm  <address@hidden>
>>>
>>>     * texinfo.tex (LaTex): Add def.
>
> That should be LaTeX.
>
>>> Isn't texinfo.tex maintained by Texinfo and once in a while updated
>>> from that project?  If so, any changes we make to that file here will
>>> eventually be overwritten.
>
> If so, this would be a harmless change, since the newer version of
> texinfo.tex would have a definition for @LaTeX.
>
>> I don't know -- but a recent change to man/calc.texi breaks bootstrapping
>> because it uses @LaTex{} -- which isn't defined.
>
> Sorry about that.  I knew @LaTeX{} was defined in texinfo; I didn't
> realize that it was a recent addition.
>
> This would affect creation of dvi files; I'm surprised it affected
> bootstrapping, though.  Before the texinfo.tex change, I ran 'makeinfo
> calc.texi' and it worked fine.

I just bootstrapped again after the 22.1 version number update, and it
failed again in calc.texi like this

calc.texi:740: Unknown command `LaTeX'.
calc.texi:740: Misplaced {.
calc.texi:740: Misplaced }.

etc...

so my change to texinfo.tex wasn't sufficient to get rid of this.

If makeinfo doesn't use it, why do we include it?

makeinfo --version says:

 makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.3

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk