Re: backslashes, macros, indexes, texinfo

[David Kastrup]

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10 August 2015 at 18:07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Here's a change that I think's nicer, which does the expansion of the
>>> active backslash earlier as an extra stage of expansion.
>>
>> Well, this is an interesting one...
>>
>> \entry{Tiny examples}{90}{\code {Tiny examples}}
>> ] [91]
>> /usr/local/tmp/lilypond/Documentation/contributor/issues.itexi:275: 
>> Undefined c
>> ontrol sequence.
>> <argument> @empty address@hidden @voidb
>>                                        @x @penalty @tiepenalty @ 
>> address@hidden
>>
>
>> l.275 @qq{Simple tasks -- Documentation}
>>                                          on:
>> ?
>> /usr/local/tmp/lilypond/Documentation/contributor/issues.itexi:275: 
>> Emergency s
>> top.
>
>> With the definition
>>
>> @macro qq{TEXT}
>> @address@hidden
>> @end macro
>
> I didn't reproduce this at first. I had downloaded the LilyPond
> sources a couple of days ago, although couldn't build the
> documentation because of numerous missing dependencies. I thought I'd
> have a look at the source and found that the macro use was in an
> @example environment.

Oops, sorry for overlooking the relevant context.  Maybe it should have
tripped me off that compilation got reasonably far while @qq is a rather
frequently used macro.

I'll give the amended version another try.

-- 
David Kastrup