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Re: CVS Texinfo: @math and TeX characters


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: CVS Texinfo: @math and TeX characters
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:41:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

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

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

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

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

Actually I thought you quoted some documentation I missed, but I still
can't find those words.  I think that adding to the documentation,
emphasing that ``makeinfo does not interpret the arg to @math at all''
is just what it takes :)

Thanks for having answered!




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