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Re: Using macros in @item
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Using macros in @item |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:47:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
> 1) Indeed, macros are not expanded in the @item of a @table. I do not
> see an easy fix for this, see my comment in the diff below.
> 2) So, I changed makeinfo/macro.c to output the body of a macro to the
> macro expansion output. (Bizarre!) So texinfo.tex will have a
> chance at it.
> 3) It was not texi2dvi that was disabling @macro in the macro xp output.
> Makeinfo has never output the @macro commands there.
Now I remember! That's why texi2dvi used to perform weird magic bits:
that was to _preserve_ these guys. or?
> 4) I'm not worrying about old versions of texinfo.tex that don't have
> @macro, although that's what red hat (and probably other
> distributions) still have :(.
OK.
> In addition to this patch to macro.c, you'll need the very latest
> texinfo.tex (updated tonight), or you'll get spurious warnings with your
> test files.
> Hope this helps a little.
It does, thanks a lot! Actually, even Autoconf should be happy to use
this IIRC.
- Using macros in @item, Akim Demaille, 2003/10/22
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/22
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/23
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/23
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/23
- Re: Using macros in @item,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/24
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/24
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/26
- Re: Using macros in @item, Karl Berry, 2003/10/27