Re: latest groff documentation is incompatible with latest GNU texinfo

[Karl Berry]

    Do you have any idea how to fix the bug in texinfo?

I haven't looked into it yet.  @macro problems are not a priority for
me, and I guess Alper has not had any time to work on Texinfo recently.

I expect you could trivially work around the bug by getting rid of the
Example and endExample macros in groff.texinfo and just writing out the
@example&@group, if some sort of fix is time-critical.  There won't be
another Texinfo release any time soon.

Best,
karl


P.S. I had to look up the old report in the archives to know what you
were referring to.  For the record, here it is again :).

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:34:33 +0200 (CEST)
To: address@hidden
From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: latest groff documentation is incompatible with latest GNU
 texinfo

eggert> The problem is that the latest version of groff has a texinfo
> file that is rejected by the latest version of GNU texinfo.
> Here's the output of the above commands:
> 
> groff.texinfo:846: Multiline command @group used improperly.
> groff.texinfo:852: Unmatched address@hidden'.
> groff.texinfo:852: Unmatched address@hidden'.
> groff.texinfo:856: Multiline command @group used improperly.
> groff.texinfo:861: Unmatched address@hidden'.
> groff.texinfo:861: Unmatched address@hidden'.
> groff.texinfo:1069: Multiline command @group used improperly.
> groff.texinfo:1071: address@hidden' expected `table', but saw `group'.
> groff.texinfo:1071: address@hidden' expected `table', but saw `example'.
> ...
> Too many errors!  Gave up.

This is indeed a texinfo bug.  I have

  @macro Example
  @example
  @group  
  @end macro

  @macro endExample
  @end group
  @end example
  @end macro  

  @Example
  groff -a -man -Tdvi troff.man | less
  @endExample

and this now fails.