Re: my-bib-macros.texi

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:19:25AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> The utility file my-bib-macros.texi, referenced on the
> Texinfo - The GNU Documentation System https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
> has a bug in line 210: 
> 
> (See item [\ref\] in @ref{\node\, \ref\}.)
> 
> The \node\ and the \ref\ are reversed for proper output.  The syntax must have
> changed at some time since 2004.

It's not possible that the syntax will have changed.

> Now, line 210 should read:
> 
> (See item [\ref\] in @ref{\ref\,, \node\}.)

Thank you for the report. I cannot get this file to work at all. Can you 
email me the test file you used?

When I try running the attached file, I get an error message:

$ pdfetex tmp.texi
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./tmp.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2018-09-21.20]: 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.)
(./my-bib-macros.texi) (Top) [1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pd
ftex.map}] Chapter 1 [2]
Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. Chapter 2 [3]
! Argument of @asis has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                @par 
<to be read again> 
                   }
@doitemize address@hidden 0 = @hbox address@hidden }
                                                  @ifx @itemcontents @empty ...
l.30 @itemize @asis
                   
?

Probably there have been changes to texinfo.tex that make my-bib-macros.texi
not work any more.

tmp.texi
Description: TeXInfo document

my-bib-macros.texi
Description: TeXInfo document