On 26 March 2016 at 00:50, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > I really don't understand the code in \pdfgettoks in texinfo.tex. > > Not sure if this is still relevant, but it's not just about page > numbers, is it? I thought that crazy stuff was at least partly about > handling brace characters that should show up literally in the pdf > bookmarks. I believe Han The Thanh (principal author of pdftex) and > Hans Hagen wrote it many years ago, late 90s maybe. I don't seem to > have any old email that specifically talks about it, though.
Okay thanks, hadn't thought of that. I'll have another look at it. > Sadly, svn > blame reports "Skipping binary file: 'texinfo.tex'" (even though it's > not a binary file), so can't glean information that way. I thought that > used to work. Oh well. Can keep delving if need be ... svn blame --force does it, but it shouldn't be a binary file in the first place.
