Re: [bug #35395] bad picture path with --html and --without --no-split

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 03:19:49PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Otherwise I tend to agree that we should just declare \ paths to be 
>     known not to work, until somebody does a patch.  
> 
> I've come to believe we should not even accept a patch.  Any such
> support would tend to be pervasive, destabilizing, and require further
> work in who-knows-how-many-places.  And furthermore, \ paths are not
> going to work in texinfo.tex, ever.
> 
> Texinfo has existed for some 25 years without supporting \ paths, so I
> simply cannot believe we need to start now.

Ok.  I sort of assumed that makeinfo in C supported \ paths.

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Pat