Re: Using macros in @item

[Karl Berry]

    well, it seems clear the makeinfo -E should silently work as a macro
    preprocessor, omitting as much of the usual checks as possible.

I agree.  I installed your changes, thanks.

Unfortunately, this does not yet solve the problem enough to let us use
makeinfo --iftex in texi2dvi.  For instance, texinfo.txi says this:

@tex
{\globaldefs = 1 \smallfonts}
@end tex

and thus makeinfo complains about misplaced braces when run with
--iftex.  In general, it seems like virtually every error would need
protection from macro_expansion_output_stream.

This is not going to be the top of my list any time soon, but I've added
it to TODO.

Thanks,
karl