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 \\
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
Hi All,
Changing \t to \\t ... results in a doubled-up \\ in pdf output.
I'll see if I can fix that. It is twisty TeX.
Trying to use @backslash{}t failed, because there is no @backslash
command (should there be?).
Conceivably, but it wouldn't really help you now if we added it, sin
On 06/14/2010 09:27 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30:46PM CEST:
>> Any other ideas for a workaround that works for both info and pdf?
>
> Not using macros here?
Rather obvious, now that you mention it.
>
> -...@defmac m4_split (@var{string}, @dvar{r
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:35:33PM +, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> Thanks for the report, as always.
>
> need to double backslashes in the macro definition, but is silent
> about macro arguments.
> I think it is makeinfo that is doing the wrong thing here.
I don't think so, be
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30:46PM CEST:
> Any other ideas for a workaround that works for both info and pdf?
Not using macros here?
Cheers,
Ralf
Avoid texinfo bug with backslashes in macro arguments.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros)
(Common Sh
Hi Ralf,
Thanks for the report, as always.
need to double backslashes in the macro definition, but is silent
about macro arguments.
I seem to recall that it is silent precisely because I noted the
discrepancy and was too discouraged to do anything about it.
I think it is makeinfo that i
On 06/14/2010 03:24 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello bug-texinfo readers,
>
> with makeinfo 4.13, the following texinfo code snippet from Autoconf:
>
> @macro dvar{varname, default}
> @r...@var{\varname\} = @samp{\defaul...@r{]}@c
> @end macro
>
> @defmac m4_split (@var{string}, @dvar{
Hello bug-texinfo readers,
with makeinfo 4.13, the following texinfo code snippet from Autoconf:
@macro dvar{varname, default}
@r...@var{\varname\} = @samp{\defaul...@r{]}@c
@end macro
@defmac m4_split (@var{string}, @dvar{regexp, [\t ]+})
...
@end defmac
is missing the backslash be
