Re: problems with makeinfo's macro expansion

[Karl Berry]

      . While `makeinfo -E' does remove macro definitions for small
        examples, this doesn't happen for groff.texinfo.

This is actually intentional.  In fact, macro definitions should never
be removed from the -E output.  Can you send me one of the small
examples where they are?

This is because of a longstanding problem in makeinfo where macro calls
are not always expanded in the -E output -- namely the argument to
@table and the like.  It's nearly impossible to fix, so the best
workaround I could devise was to write the macro definitions as well,
and let TeX do those expansions.  Not perfect, but better than nothing.

      . Zero bytes are inserted after some expansions --

Yes, I see.  I'll look at that.

Thanks,
k