mistake or bug?

[Hans Nieuwenhuizen]

This was sent to address@hidden a week ago:


Dear Sirs,

Being faced with the problem of needing quite a number of documents as ( 
almost ) identical .ltx, .html and .txt printouts, I was very happy to see 
that TeXInfo presents me with __the___ solution. The text contains very much 
rather complicated mathematics, so I read your texinfo.info thoroughly.

Text was surprizingly easy, it had finished before I realized that I had even 
pressed <RET>, but @math gives me a problem. I tested the small example 
copied from your texinfo file, node 'Raw Formatter Commands', but regret to 
say that `makeinfo` version 4.5 and version 4.0, which I already have for 
some time without using it, gave the same results:

Inputfile: 
quote
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\input texinfo    @c -*-texinfo-*-

@c
@c=======================  B E G I N   O F   F I L E  ========================
@c

@c %**start of header
@setfilename TeXtest.info
@settitle test
@c %**end of header


@node Top

For example, here is a mathematical expression written in plain TeX:

     @tex
     $$ \chi^2 = \sum_{i=1}^N
              \left (y_i - (a + b x_i)
              \over \sigma_i\right)^2 $$
     @end tex

The output of this example will appear only in a printed manual.  If

@bye
@c
@c=========================  E N D   O F   F I L E  ==========================
@c

unquote
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gives:

quote
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address@hidden:~/WS/Texinfo> makeinfo TeXtest.texinfo
TeXtest.texinfo:56: Expected `
@end tex'.         
makeinfo: Removing output file `/home/hans/WS/Texinfo/TeXtest.info' due to
errors; use --force to preserve.
address@hidden:~/WS/Texinfo>

unquote
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and you will notice that there is no opening apostrophe in the file. Moreover:
leaving @tex - @end tex out solves your problem, but not mine, which is more 
important to me. I believe the problem is in the conversion of that section. 

I use the professional releases of SuSE 8.2 and 7.1. and besides the runfile 
there is only one other named 'makeinfo'* 

/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/textmodes/makeinfo.elc

but this one is only 51 lines long so I don't expect my problem is in there. 

I also foresee problems with the math conversion into HTML, I don't like TeX 
printing -> scanning -> cutting -> insert a REF to .jpg. Is there a reliable 
[La]TeX2HTML converter? The latex2html in the SuSE contains only icons.

Please advise what to do since I can't do without the inclusion of such maths.
 
Thanks

Nieuwenhuizen
2003-08-15
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