Re: texinfo.tex change.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jay Belanger <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:46:17 -0600
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, "Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden>
> 
> >> makeinfo --version says:
> >>
> >>  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.3
> 
> I currently have Texinfo 4.8.
> I'll add a definition for @LaTeX in calc.texi, so it won't matter
> which version of makeinfo is used (I hope).

Please don't: you cannot do that in a way that would avoid problems
with versions of Texinfo that do support @LaTeX.

> > @LaTeX{} was introduced in Texinfo 4.7 (9 April 2004).  I'll update
> > README that currently says that Texinfo 4.2 or later is needed.
> 
> The change to calc.texi will still be needed.

Why do we need to use @LaTeX{} in calc.texi?  What's so important
about this macro that it must be used there?

In general, we don't want to force users to install too recent
versions of Texinfo, so the very recent introductions should be
avoided if possible.