Re: Bug in current version of Texinfo

[Gavin Smith]

On 30 May 2015 at 11:43, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't doubt that your changes were not made gratuitiously.
>> Please grant me the courtesy of believing that neither were mine.
>>
>> And, sorry, but I just don't want to take the time to delve into
>> building lilypond and figuring out from scratch where the issue is in
>> your sources.  I looked at your Texinfo files under Documentation/ but
>> nothing jumped out.  I can easily believe the issue is related to use of
>> @macro.
>>
>> I did just verify that the small input file below using macros to make
>> index entries involving backslashes worked as expected with the current
>> texinfo.tex, so far as I can see.
>>
>> If you, or anyone there, can send a (not necessarily minimal) Texinfo
>> file that demonstrates the problem, I'd be happy to look into it.
>
> It would seem like this is an old problem with the "resolution" "not
> interested in fixing this".

I found this discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2010-06/msg00003.html

and this ChangeLog entry:

2010-06-17  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>

        * doc/texinfo.tex (\macroargctxt): set \catcode`\\=0, as a try
        at supporting \\ \{ \} (but not \,) in macro args.
        Report from Ralf W, Eric B, Patrice D,  14 Jun 2010 23:48:39.

I haven't read through the discussion yet but I expect I'll have
problems trying to guess what all the "address@hidden" mean!