Re: CVS Texinfo: @math and TeX characters

[Karl Berry]

Hi Akim,

    There is a problem with characters such as &, % etc.: they are not
    accepted as are by TeX, but the \ is not stripped by makeinfo:

Depends on how you define `problem' :).  I think the manual describes
this situation accurately --

1) makeinfo does not interpret the arg to @math at all, it just
   reproduces what is there.  It can't strip \'s in general because what
   if the arg was @math{foo \ bar} for a \ math operator?  (One of many
   possibilities.)

2) texinfo.tex interprets the arg to @math as plain TeX (@tex), so that
   actual math can be typeset without horrible pain (this was a change
   in 4.something from the original way @math worked, which was of
   minimal value).  Thus the error from TeX for a bare &.

I'm open to suggestions for how to improve this, but I can't see it
happening for 4.3.

Thanks,
karl