On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > > Did you try "@deffn{Escape \@@@{}"?
> > >
> > > Yes. I get something like
> > >
> > > stdin:6278: Missing `}' in @def arg.
> > > stdin:6279: Unmatched }.
> > >
> > > while using texi2dvi. So it fails.
> >
> > Do you have problems in texi2dvi or in makeinfo (or both)?
>
> In makeinfo (and consequently in texi2dvi).
Okay, I'll look into this and see what can be done. Thanks for
reporting.
> Looking into tex2dvi (v. 0.43 coming with the texinfo 4.0
> distribution), I see that texi2dvi is the problem -- the comment says
>
> # A sed script that preprocesses Texinfo sources in order to keep
> # the iftex sections only.
>
> Consequently, line numbers are incorrect if an error occurs.
Yes, it would seem so.
> > > What about replacing the macro lines with comment lines instead of
> > > removing them completely?
> >
> > What for? What's wrong with the current modus operandi?
>
> I suggest that texi2dvi's `comment_iftex_sed' sed script doesn't
> remove `ifinfo' sections but just comment out to have correct line
> numbers.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about "makeinfo -E".
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