On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 08:02:34PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > "makeinfo -E" was never used too much, so I'm not surprised. It is
I have no information about that, however I guess this was useful when used as part of texi2dvi -e, -E, --expand as TeX has many limitations/bugs in macro expansion. > also a problematic concept, because the choice of things it expands as > opposed to those it leaves alone is such that cannot possibly work in > some use cases. Here, "work" means that passing the results of -E to > makeinfo should give you the same output as running makeinfo once > without the -E. Do you have an example? I think I get the general idea, but I can't find an example. Maybe this has to do with @if*? > > I think that this behaviour isn't correct and I would prefer not to > > have it in texi2any. > > Which behavior you allude to here, exactly? The one with -E or > without? The behavior I allude to is the fact that the 2 output (with -E and without) are not consistent. -- Pat
