Re: [help-texinfo] strange behavior of @contents

[Karl Berry]

Hi again Oliver,

    when I insert an @contents (after @end titlepage or at the end of a
    document) texi2dvi exited with a bad status. 

The original cause of this is that the Zertifikate chapter has
@subsection's directly under the @chapter.  Those should be @section's.

@subsection Zertifikate mit easy-rsa erstellen
@subsection Zertifikate von Hand erstellen

I also strongly suggest having a @node commands before every sectioning
command (@chapter ... @subsubsection).  The nodes are used for
cross-reference targets, so without them things will be less than
optimal (among other reasons).


Also, the @insertcopying stuff would more typically go after the title
page, and the @copying stuff defined even earlier, like this (as shown
in the sample documents):

...
@c %**end of header

@copying
...
@end copying

@titlepage
@title OpenVPN HowTo
@author Oliver Beck
@subtitle Version 0.23
@subtitle November 2004
@page
@insertcopying{}
@end titlepage

@contents


Anyway, aside from all that, I think the patch below fixes the error.
It's checked into cvs and released to ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex, etc.

Thanks,
karl

*** texinfo.tex 31 Oct 2004 14:56:11 -0000      1.177
--- texinfo.tex 8 Nov 2004 23:53:25 -0000
***************
*** 5,7 ****
  %
! \def\texinfoversion{2004-10-31.06}
  %
--- 5,7 ----
  %
! \def\texinfoversion{2004-11-08.15}
  %
***************
*** 1244,1247 ****
        \def\thischapnum{##2}%
!       \let\thissecnum\empty
!       \let\thissubsecnum\empty
        }%
--- 1244,1247 ----
        \def\thischapnum{##2}%
!       \def\thissecnum{0}%
!       \def\thissubsecnum{0}%
        }%
***************
*** 1250,1252 ****
        \def\thissecnum{##2}%
!       \let\thissubsecnum\empty
        }%
--- 1250,1252 ----
        \def\thissecnum{##2}%
!       \def\thissubsecnum{0}%
        }%
***************
*** 1259,1263 ****
        }%
!       \let\thischapnum\empty
!       \let\thissecnum\empty
!       \let\thissubsecnum\empty
        %
--- 1259,1263 ----
        }%
!       \def\thischapnum{0}%
!       \def\thissecnum{0}%
!       \def\thissubsecnum{0}%
        %