RE: backslash behaviour changed?

[Andrew Fitzgibbon]

Apologies to all.  I thought that my minimal example
represented my situation, and it didn't matter
that the texi file was ill formed.

In fact the following is true:

"The @setfilename must be in the top level texi file."

In my case it was in an included file, and therefore
set the backslash up inside a begingroup, which
didn't stick at the top level.

Sorry to waste the time of any readers.

A.

To be clear, the following succeeds

  $ cat > file.texi
  \input texinfo
  @setfilename fred
  \
  @bye

  $ tex file.texi

While this fails

  $ cat > filea.texi 
  \input texinfo
  @include fileb.texi
  \
  @bye
  $ cat > fileb.texi 
  @setfilename file

  $ tex filea.texi 
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2.1)
(filea.texi (texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2003-04-28.10]:
Basics, pdf,
fonts, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc,
environments, defuns, macros, cross references,
(C:\texmf\tex\generic\dvips\epsf.tex) localization,
and turning on texinfo input format.) (fileb.texi (filea.aux))
! Use of \ doesn't match its definition.
l.3 \
     
? 
[1] )
Output written on filea.dvi (1 page, 140 bytes).
Transcript written on filea.log.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fitzgibbon [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 01 May 2003 20:01
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: 'Andrew Fitzgibbon'
> Subject: backslash behaviour changed?
> 
> 
> 
> I thought backslash was supposed to behave as a literal 
> character?  It doesn't in a document I am writing, and the
> documentation doesn't say how to insert one, it simply
> says, under @math, that it behaves as a literal.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me or suggest a fix?
> 
> A.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TAMORA 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
> $ 
> $ cat > file.texi
> \input texinfo
> TEXT
> @bye
> ^D
> 
> $ tex file.texi 
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2.1)
> (file.texi (texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 
> 2003-04-28.10]: Basics,
> pdf,
> fonts, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc,
> environments, defuns, macros, cross references,
> (C:\texmf\tex\generic\dvips\epsf.tex) localization,
> and turning on texinfo input format.) [1] )
> Output written on file.dvi (1 page, 200 bytes).
> Transcript written on file.log.
> 
> $ cat > file.texi
> \input texinfo
> \
> @bye
> ^D
> 
> $ tex file.texi 
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 2.1)
> (file.texi (texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 
> 2003-04-28.10]: Basics,
> pdf,
> fonts, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc,
> environments, defuns, macros, cross references,
> (C:\texmf\tex\generic\dvips\epsf.tex) localization,
> and turning on texinfo input format.)
> ! Use of \ doesn't match its definition.
> l.2 \
>      
> ? q
> 
>