Re: Inclusion of new texinfo.tex breaks other packages

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Karl,

On Don, 16 Mär 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> Well, I hope I didn't make quite such a blanket statement!  What I know

Anyway ;-)

> I made some changes on February 13 in this area.  Try the current
> version :).  Your test file works for me.

Ok, also the more complete test file from the bug report worked. Thanks.

>     Could you explain this?
> 
> Yes, @ifset/@ifclear (among other things) are impossible to reliably
> parse in TeX :(.  Especially nested.

And why did it work with the old version?

Best wishes

Norbert

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