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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 |
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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!