Re: Errors running texi2dvi on r5rs.texi from the Guile docs distro

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
> Date: 26 Jan 2001 13:22:57 +0000
> 
> IMO all the problems but one were problems with the source, and not
> with texi2dvi.  But there remains one problem which might indicate a
> bug in texi2dvi, so I thought you'd like to look at it.
> 
> In the fixed copy of r5rs.texi that I've put up at
> http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/r5rs.texi, note the three lines
> 7336--7338:
> 
> @c @ignore todo
> @c Explain what happens in the ambiguous case.
> @c @end ignore
> 
> Like this, texi2dvi is successful.  The bug is that texi2dvi gets an
> error if the address@hidden ' at the beginning of each of these lines is 
> removed.
> I say this is a bug because my expectation is that address@hidden ... @end
> ignore' should ignore the affected lines just as effectively as with
> address@hidden'.

Does it work if you remove "todo" which immediately follows "@ignore"?
I don't thing @ignore allows any text on the same line.

(I didn't yet try the file on my system, so I cannot see myself if the
above helps.)