[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52775] PDF user manual uses a backward apostrophe ` in code examples

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #29, bug #52775 (project octave):

To emphasize again, texi2dvi and texi2pdf version 5.2 do not error out on the
sortas macro. It's only makeinfo 5.2 that errors (building octave.info and
octave.html). So there is no error with any kind of validation of the syntax
as long as the macro is defined in texinfo.tex for the TeX output formats (DVI
and PDF). I have not looked at the rendered output yet because I didn't know
what I was looking for.

It makes sense that texinfo.tex is not used for the plain text formats (Info
and HTML) because they aren't TeX based. I guess that Texinfo implements its
own conversion routines either in C or Perl that handle the sortas macro for
the non-TeX formats.

On a system with Texinfo 6.5, I do get the top-level graphics object classes
listed first in the "Graphics Properties Index" page for all output formats.

I don't think there's a point to a separate doc distribution, since we already
build and include the docs with the source distribution.

I agree that this remaining compatibility issue primarily affects developers
and packagers.

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