Re: texi2dvi bug or limitation ? @image {christmas, @sizemacro}

[Marc Herbert]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > 
> > @macro pagewidth
> > 15cm
> > @end macro
> > 
> > @image{christmas, @pagewidth}
> 
> Try invoking texi2dvi with -e option.  Did it work?

It works... almost. First it break some minor macro details that work
previously, but above all, it breaks all @iftex and @ifinfo stuff !! 
=> I would definetely not recommend this solution.

> 
> For such simple text substitutions, you could use @set/@value or
> @alias.  They work better in TeX.
> 

@alias works only with commands, and I need simple text substitution.
@set/@value does not work in @image, just like @macro does not.

Thanks for trying.


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Marc Herbert
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