On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 04:20:50AM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> I have been scrutinising the Texinfo files for the book "Free Software Free
> Society"
> where he defines some macros in texinfo.tex
>
> In the code file not-ipr.texi there is the command
>
> @chapter Did You Say ``Intellectual
> Property''?@entrybreak{}It's@tie{}a@tie{}Seductive@tie{}Mirage
>
> I do not think that @entrybreak{} is a standard texinfo command when checking
> the manual.
It isn't. It might be removed in the future so you shouldn't rely on
it.
>
> In the file texinfo.tex I have found defined
>
> \def\entrybreak{\hfil\break}%
>
> I want to do a similar thing in one of my documents that uses @part because
> the part
> title is bit long and I would like to break it along multiple lines.
>
> Because I keep to 72 columns in the code, I want to split the long part
> titles,
> but have noticed that texinfo takes only the entry on the same line as @part.
I don't know what you mean here.
> @alias ebr = entrybreak
> @set ta @ebr{}New Ideas in Seismic
> @set tb @ebr{}Observatory Practice
>
> @part PART I @*@*@* @value{ta}@*@value{tb}
> @part PART I @*@*@* @value{ta}@*@value{tb}
When I added a @contents after the @alias line and a @chapter after the
@part, the contents were printed with the full part name.
