Re: several texinfo.tex issues in 4.2 release

[Bob Wilson]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Thanks for all the fixes/comments/suggestions.  However, I really need
> source documents I can test against to verify most of these changes.  I
> presume you have examples where you actually saw the problems?  I don't
> care how big they are (just tell me what page to be looking at :).


I have attached below a sample document that illustrates the problems.


> For the other questions, the basic answer is, all the changes were made
> in response to other bug reports.  It would take a bit of effort to dig
> back and find them all.  Does it really matter?  Seems to me all that
> matters is where we are now.

Well, it matters in the sense that in some cases, the most obvious fix (from my 
perspective) is to back out the changes that cause the problems!  That is what 
several of my patches do, anyway.


> Anyway, in general, it doesn't make sense to revert code back to the old
> version, because the old version had some bug, or I wouldn't have
> changed it.  Thus the need for example source to find where the new
> version fails.

OK.  Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help figure out what to do 
with these issues.  Thanks!

sample.texinfo
Description: TeXInfo document