Re: Texinfo - manual line breaks in URLs?

[David Kastrup]

Michael Käppler <xmichael-k@web.de> writes:

> Am 11.06.2020 um 15:22 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
>>> I can prepare a version of the docs with all occurences of '@/'
>>> removed and '@urefbreakstyle before' set, so that everyone can
>>> compare and build an opinion on this.
>> Great, thanks in advance.  I suggest that you use the `texinfo.tex`
>> file directly from the 'texinfo' git repository so that we test the
>> most recent version.
>>
> This turned out to be difficult.
> As a first step I tried to upgrade texinfo.tex to current master
> of the official Texinfo git repo. This broke 'make doc'
> with a XeTeX error, handed over by 'texi2pdf' with the pretty
> useless message: "XeTeX exited with bad exit status"
> This happened just after finishing the first XeTeX pass.
>
> I appended various options to texi2pdf to make the output
> more verbose, but I did not get useful output regarding
> the XeTeX termination.
>
> Bisecting yielded that the first texinfo commit that introduced
> the error is
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=aa18f519e091b6ada0fb2b0a65a51880031d5014

Uh oh.  This looks like it introduces (modifies?) a command named
@seealso but it would appear that we define our own version of it.

-- 
David Kastrup