Re: makeinfo: whitespace around @alias equal sign

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 24 Jul 2001, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> In a debian i386 packaged texinfo 4.0, it seems makeinfo doesn't
> accept whitespace around the "=" in an @alias, contrary to what the
> manual says (the "alias" node).  For example foo.texi below processed
> with
> 
>         makeinfo foo.texi
> 
> gets
> 
>         foo.texi:15: Unknown command `moviecite'.
>         foo.texi:15: Misplaced {.
>         foo.texi:15: Misplaced }.

That's true: the whitespace around the `=' is significant.  I think
the manual needs to be fixed, because this is a feature: you may wish
to have the substitution text include whitespace.