Re: Ugliness in the Learning Manual

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Ugliness in the Learning Manual


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Would the following patch help?
>
> > > \envdef\cartouche{%
> > > +  \ifvmode\the\everypar\fi % trigger headers
> > >   \ifhmode\par\fi  % can't be in the midst of a paragraph.
> > >   \startsavinginserts
> > >   \lskip=\leftskip \rskip=\rightskip
> >
> > I edited the texinfo.tex file in src/tex and recreated the LM.  No
> > difference.
>
> Thanks.  It was worth a try, and I currently don't have the time for a
> more thorough analysis.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Actually, I've just been looking at this, and your patch almost solves the 
problem - *if I change the correct file*.  I already have texinfo installed 
on my system, and I noticed that when I run it, part of the output is

(./WarningProb.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

so it's looking at a different texinfo.tex than the one in my lily-git 
directory.  This applies whether I run in inside the git directory or not. 
After a bit of messing about teaching myself how to change permissions so I 
could edit that file, I made your change to the texinfo.tex.  It was 
successful in moving the text of my test file below the header, but not the 
box (i.e. it shifted it down about 1 line space).

--
Phil Holmes