> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:00:09 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> > > > Macros never worked well with TeX, so -E was a band-aid that not > > always worked. > > I don't understand. If macro do not work well with TeX, -E is a way to > avoid expanding macros in TeX.
Because macros didn't work well with TeX, people avoided using them when DVI output was important, so "makeinfo -E" was seldom used. > > Yes, @if* are the problem. > > And you think it is not fixed by calling makeinfo with --iftex > --no-ifinfo? First, there are also @ifset and @ifclear. Then AFAIR there were problems with separate macro definitions for TeX and for Info. I'm not sure using explicit --iftex etc. solved them. More generally, if macros are used in a mix with other Texinfo commands, which are not expanded by "makeinfo -E", there's always a possibility of problems that don't happen in "makeinfo" proper. > > If that can be fixed, it would be a good thing. OTOH, if the new > > macro expansion machinery will work well with TeX, perhaps -E could be > > deprecated altogether. > > I don't really get what is the 'new macro expansion machinery'. The one in texi2any. > Basically, the new expansion machinery is the makeinfo in C expansion > without the inconsistencies and bugs. Well, that makes it "new".
