Re: texinfo.tex 2016-05-07.20: "Tex capacity exceeded" with Emacs manuals

2016-05-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/26/2016 11:41 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: OK, I got the same problem with the files you sent. I've committed and uploaded a new version that reverses the change, so @value is expanded at the time of writing again. Undefined @value's, when used in index entries, should not cause failures, either.

Re: texinfo.tex 2016-05-07.20: "Tex capacity exceeded" with Emacs manuals

2016-05-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 May 2016 at 16:48, Paul Eggert wrote: > OK, here's a smaller example taken from the Emacs source code. Unpack the > attached tarball in a fresh directory, copy the latest Gnulib texinfo.tex > into it, and run the shell command 'texi2pdf bovine.texi'. On my platform > (Fedora 23 x86-64, texi2

Re: texinfo.tex 2016-05-07.20: "Tex capacity exceeded" with Emacs manuals

2016-05-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/26/2016 08:20 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: These instructions download several 100's of MB of a git repository and I wasn't willing to let it finish. I tried the file "emacs-lisp-intro.texi" from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/doc/lispintro, and after editing the file a bit (so i

Re: texinfo.tex 2016-05-07.20: "Tex capacity exceeded" with Emacs manuals

2016-05-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 25 May 2016 at 19:08, Paul Eggert wrote: > texinfo.tex version 2016-05-07.20 (the current version in Gnulib) causes > what appears to be runaway recursion when used to make PDF files for GNU > Emacs. The Emacs bug report is here: > > http://bugs.gnu.org/23611 > > To reproduce the problem on a F