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Re: texinfo.tex change.
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: texinfo.tex change. |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:28:02 -0600 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
...
>> 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.
I already put it in, but it could come out easily enough.
But it didn't cause any problems here. (I put in the definition
for info output, not TeX output.) I thought it would just override
any previous definition of @LaTeX, if there were one.
>> > @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?
To typeset "LaTeX" properly.
> 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.
I didn't realize that this was a recent introduction when I put it in.
All instances of @LaTeX could be replaced by address@hidden, but then the
typeset output wouldn't look as good. It would make more sense, then,
to either stick with @LaTeX and put definitions (\gdef for TeX and
macro for non-TeX output) in calc.texi, or I guess I should
properly define a new macro @fooLaTeX (or whatever) and use that.
Jay
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Kim F. Storm, 2005/02/08
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Richard Stallman, 2005/02/10
- Re: texinfo.tex change., David Kastrup, 2005/02/10
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Richard Stallman, 2005/02/12
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Jay Belanger, 2005/02/12
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/13
- Re: texinfo.tex change., Jay Belanger, 2005/02/10
Re: texinfo.tex change., Richard Stallman, 2005/02/10