"EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> i.e., the @ovar was expanded when it appeared on its own, but was
>> not expanded when used in an argument of @defmac.
>>
>> As a result, texi2dvi does not work - it complains that @ovar is
>> not defined.
>>
>> is this a bug or a feature?
EZ> It's a limitation of macros in Texinfo: macros in
EZ> @def... commands are not supported.
I.e. they should not be used, or it is not yet implemented?
[i.e. it is a temporary limitation or a general limitation which will
not be resolved?]
Is the reason they are not supported in difficulties of implementation?
the following hack seems to produce a correct texinfo source file
which is processed by TeX without errors:
perl -p -e 's,\@defmac,\@r{12345},; s,\@end defmac,\@r{54321},' test.texi | \
makeinfo --macro-expand=- | \
perl -p -e 's,\@r\{12345\},\@defmac,;s,\@r\{54321\},\@end defmac,' > test1.texi
so i wonder why makeinfo does not expand macros everywhere?
Best,
v.
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