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Re: Fwd: REVIEW REQUEST - user manual generation


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Fwd: REVIEW REQUEST - user manual generation
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 21:57:02 +0100

On 2 May 2016 at 20:53, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 April 2016 at 09:27, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Attached is an attempt to do that. Unfortunately using \egroup for group
>> end does not work, because whether it is a \toks or a \def you need the
>> the end of the definition terminated by a catcode=2 character.
>>
>> So, I need only one forbidden character in filenames (in addition to
>> backslash) to make it.
>
> The use of \expandafter and groups seems like a good trick to get
> arbitrary filenames.

Been playing around with this, but appear to have hit a bug in my
version of TeX:

$ etex '\input test.texi'
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./test.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2016-04-14.07]: pdf,
fonts, markup, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing,
sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) (./test2.texi
 Chapter 1 [1]) [2] )
Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 904 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
$ etex '\toks0={\input test.texi}\the\toks0'
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode

*x
*** Error in `etex': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09d4f6d0 ***

============
(I typed the "x" here as input.) I may try upgrading to a newer
version and see if the same happens.



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