Re: m4 lines handled everywhere?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:50:30PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> There's no decent way to change the filename/lineno information TeX
> outputs in its error messages.  It is done in low-level code and Knuth
> did not put in any hooks to customize/change it.  (It's been a problem
> since day one, but nothing to do about that now.)

Ok, so let's forget about it.

> They could generate a #line just as well?

Of course, but if it could have been possible to have something that works
for both TeX and texi2any that would have been even better.

> If a user @macro is involved in an error, that would be an excellent
> thing to include in error msgs.

That's something done for a long time, in texi2html even and we talked
about the wording of such messages...

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Pat