Re: [help-texinfo] texi2dvi breaks on http://nco.sf.net/nco.texi

[Charlie Zender]

Karl,

You are right. It works on Fedora if I swap in the Ubuntu texinfo.tex.

By default Ubuntu 13.04 uses

/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

which is texinfo version 2008-04-18.10.

Fedora FC19 uses

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

which is texinfo version 2013-02-01.11.

So the texinfo.tex bug was introduced sometime after 2008-04-18.

The new texinfo.tex that you sent also solves the problem.

Strange that the apostrophe in "User's" was the culprit!

I've changed that too, to ensure build-compatibility with recent
versions of texinfo.tex.

cz

Le 10/09/2013 16:55, Karl Berry a écrit :
> Hi Charlie,
> 
>     texi2dvi always works fine on my Ubuntu system, and always
>     breaks on my Fedora system. 
> 
> I'll be mightily surprised if the issue is about anything but
> texinfo.tex.  I.e., if you put in the texinfo.tex from your Fedora onto
> your Ubuntu, it should fail.
> 
> Anyway, I think I've fixed it.  See attached texinfo.tex (not committed
> yet, tomorrow for that if you confirm).  Another solution would be to
> say "Users Guide" or "User Guide" instead of "User's Guide" in the title :).
> 
> Thanks
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (This was my test document.)
> \input texinfo
> @setfilename quotetitle.info
> @set mychars T ' ` @@ $ ^ _ & # % < > + - " | \ ~ @hashchar{}
> @settitle @value{mychars}
> @setchapternewpage odd
> 
> @titlepage
> @title @value{mychars}
> @end titlepage
> 
> @everyfooting @thistitle{}
> @chapter @value{mychars}
> 
> Text: @value{mychars}.
> 
> @tex
> before page
> @page
> after page
> @page
> another page
> @end tex
> 
> @bye
> 

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Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(