Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:04:41PM CEST: > Other characters that need to be quoted in macro arguments are > curly braces and backslash. > > I committed a new http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and in > gnulib, etc., etc.) which purports to handle \\ \{ \} in arguments to > macro calls. > > However, \, can't be handled by the method I used, so @comma{} has to be > used. > > I confess I am not sure if this change makes things better or worse, > overall. I'd appreciate anyone who uses Texinfo macros giving it a try.
I've tried it on autoconf.texi with my patch reverted and the backslash doubled, so that one backslash ends up in the info output. The PDF output then still has two backslashes. Cheers, Ralf
