No. The documentation snippet you've quoted in a previous mail is
already present in version 4.13 (slightly reworded).
Yes, I know. I didn't mean to imply it was that recent. What I know is
that neither I nor anyone else looked at the documentation at some point
and said "oh, we better change texinfo.tex".
Well, with texinfo.tex from 4.13 `\q' works, with current CVS it
doesn't.
Ok, now I'm totally baffled. Maybe \ never acted as a quote char back then?
In any case, it's not clear to me that \q working actually makes sense.
That would imply that with the sequences
\\ \{ \} \,
in macro arguments, the \ acts as a quote character, whereas with
anything else (\q), it doesn't. That doesn't sound good to me as a
specification. Nor does it sound fun to implement in texinfo.tex, even
if it's possible to do reliably, which I remain doubtful about.
As for behavior of the perl makeinfo (tp/texi2any.pl is the code base
currently being developed by Patrice), don't worry about it. Presumably
we can make it do whatever we want.
k
