Hi Karl,
one user reported a problem when building the documentation of libc with
texi2pdf. I narrowed it down to the following minimal example:
\input texinfo
@setfilename test.info
@deftypevar {(} e )
Hello World
@end deftypevar
@bye
Which breaks with
/home/norbert/bla/manual.texi:3: Unbalanced parentheses in @def.
@badparencount ...{Unbalanced parentheses in @def}
@global @parencount =0
...
(The original typedef was:
@comment GNU
@deftypevar {void (*} error_print_progname ) (void)
If the....
)
Is this a bug of texinfo, of the libc texinfo file, or should we simply
upgrade texinfo.tex (which is old I know:
\def\texinfoversion{2006-02-13.16}
)
Thanks a lot and all the best
Norbert
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