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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
User-agent: 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.




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