Package: texinfo Version: 6.5.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal I've reported the folowing bug upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2017-11/msg00019.html However, I'm not sure of the right package, since if the issue comes from the texinfo.tex file, then this may also be a bug in automake, which provides this file via "automake --add-missing". When @var is used in exponent with the raw formatter command, I get an error in the PDF generation: @tex$2^{@var{foo}}$@end tex yields errors like ../../../.././mpfr.texi:2219: \scriptfont 5 is undefined (character f). l.2219 @tex$2^{@var{foo}}$ @end tex ../../../.././mpfr.texi:2219: \scriptfont 5 is undefined (character o). l.2219 @tex$2^{@var{foo}}$ @end tex ../../../.././mpfr.texi:2219: \scriptfont 5 is undefined (character o). l.2219 @tex$2^{@var{foo}}$ @end tex The use of @var is important to get the correct typography (slanted instead of italic, with kerning). I'm using texinfo 6.5 under Debian. The texinfo.tex version is: \def\texinfoversion{2013-02-01.11} which seems to be the version installed by automake (same file as /usr/share/automake-1.15/texinfo.tex). -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages texinfo depends on: ii libc6 2.25-2 ii libtext-unidecode-perl 1.30-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0128+dfsg-5 ii perl 5.26.1-2 ii perl-base [perlapi-5.26.0] 5.26.1-2 ii tex-common 6.09 texinfo recommends no packages. Versions of packages texinfo suggests: ii texinfo-doc-nonfree 6.5.0-1 ii texlive-base 2017.20171031-1 ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2017.20171031-1 ii texlive-generic-recommended 2017.20171031-1 ii texlive-latex-base 2017.20171031-1 -- no debconf information
