Re: texinfo

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 01/24/2011 11:36 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

On 24-Jan-2011, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

| On 01/24/2011 12:46 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| >> man, 24 01 2011 kl. 00:43 -0800, skrev Michael D Godfrey:
| >>>>>> Octave is a GNU project, and the GNU project uses Texinfo
| >>>>>> for its documentation.
| >>>>
| >>>> You probably know that the "official" texlive distributors
| >>>> have decided to drop texinfo,  It is not included in their
| >>>> distribution and they are on record as "not supporting it."
| >>>> Due to the texlive folks, Fedora no longer includes TeX in
| >>>> their distribution (as of FC14).  texlive runs their own
| >>>> repository, but it is extremely hard to use.  For now,  Fedora
| >>>> includes a texinfo that still works.  How this will unwind I am
| >>>> not sure.
| 
| On my F14 "rpm -q texinfo texlive" gives
| 
| texinfo-4.13a-12.fc14.i686
| texlive-2007-56.fc14.i686
| 
| and the changelog for texlive RPM doesn't seem to mention any 
| perturbations. Can you explain what is the issue here?

I think all we need for Texinfo to work for Octave is texinfo.tex and
the makeinfo program.  If it becomes necessary, we can distribute both
as part of Octave.  I'd rather not, but if we have to, we will.

jwe

John,

texi2dvi and texi2pdf are also used. This is where problems occurred recently.
There was a version of texlive (now the only source for TeX) which caused the
doc generation to fail.  This has been fixed for now.  But, the fact that texlive
does not support texinfo is a concern for the future.  Requests to the texlive people
to provide compatibility with texinfo were rejected.

Probably best to worry about this the next time a problem occurs, or maybe
Doxygen is appropriate?

Michael