Re: Broken link at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:58:27PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> Yes.  And this alone is a huge job.  Heck, just *tokenizing* is not
> simple.  It cannot be done anything like a traditional tokenizer/parser,
> since the tokens vary in context.  For instance, @ is not always an
> escape (@verbatim ...).
> 
> And there is no way to parse bigger constructs without actually
> recognizing/executing some code, because of the verdamnt @macro.

But it is possible to remove the @macro without doing a full parsing of
the texinfo. One has still to take into account the commands that leads
to a change in context as you outlined above (@verbatim, @ignore, @htmt,
@verb, for example).

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Pat