> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:08:40 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:29:50AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > There's a possibility to run the Texinfo input through "makeinfo -E" > > first, which expands the macros and is supposed to leave everything > > else intact, and texi2dvi even uses it (I think), but somehow this > > isn't enough. Perhaps nested macros are not expanded? or maybe the > > problem was with conditional macros surrounded by @ifset/@ifclear, > > which "makeinfo -E" didn't process? I don't remember anymore. > > In the upcoming implementation, makeinfo -E should do right, as long > as the correct command-line options are given, since it is now > pretty output neutral.
Please tell the details of "do right" in this situation. > > . The whitespace issue > > > > there's the issue with the newlines before and after the body. A > > typical nuisance is that you cannot easily write a single macro > > that will work both in @example and in the normal environment, > > because there are contradicting requirements wrt keeping or > > removing the newlines. > > Currently, the last newline is always removed, if I remember well. I think eventually it's impossible to DTRT here without user control. Thanks.
