Re: Using macros in @item

[Akim Demaille]

 >     Actually the whole process of asking makeinfo to perform the expansion
 >     is dubious.  

 > No kidding.

:) :) :)

It's just I never understood how much it was :)  

But actually, this precise case can easily be worked around.  I don't
know if there are others.

 >     For instance, is @table expected to allow for user defined macros?

 > Macros can't be used arbitrarily.  We all already know this to our
 > sorrow.  It is unfortunate, especially since there is no well-defined
 > way to know whether any given complicated construct will work or not.
 > Both texinfo.tex and makeinfo -E are fragile, in different ways.

 > Realistically, I am not going to be able to fix this any time soon, just
 > as I haven't been able to fix it for the last N years :(.  We knew there
 > were problems the moment we released them.  I wish I never had.

I know this.  I'm not asking for you to solve my issues, but I don't
want to workaround while forgetting to report this bug.  Actually, I
somewhat regret there are no bugzilla or something just to keep this
in mind for us.

 > All I can say is, don't use macros when they cause problems.  Yes, the
 > redundant text (in your case at hand, for example) is annoying.  Maybe
 > preprocessing with m4 is the right thing to do :).

Actually, I do believe so :)