The html rendering of the manual ate a comma and inserted an awkward line wrap for the "example" macro prototype: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4-1.4.17/html_node/Manual.html
As documented in autoconf, use of @c does not work for macros which are designed for inline use within @deffn and friends. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=a357718 * doc/m4.texi (dvar, ovar): Drop bogus @c. Reported by Marijn Schouten, fix by Patrice Dumas copied from autoconf code base. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/m4.texi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9b865cf..5643bea 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2014-05-13 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> + + doc: fix line-wrapped macro definitions + * doc/m4.texi (dvar, ovar): Drop bogus @c. + Reported by Marijn Schouten, fix by Patrice Dumas copied from + autoconf code base. + 2014-02-05 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrho...@redhat.com> (tiny change) main: diagnose unsupported --word-regexp diff --git a/doc/m4.texi b/doc/m4.texi index 1f14290..2960cff 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texi +++ b/doc/m4.texi @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ @c The ARG is an optional argument. To be used for macro arguments in @c their documentation (@defmac). @macro ovar{varname} -@r{[}@var{\varname\}@r{]}@c +@r{[}@var{\varname\}@r{]} @end macro @c @dvar{ARG, DEFAULT} @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ @c The ARG is an optional argument, defaulting to DEFAULT. To be used @c for macro arguments in their documentation (@defmac). @macro dvar{varname, default} -@r{[}@var{\varname\} = @samp{\default\}@r{]}@c +@r{[}@var{\varname\} = @samp{\default\}@r{]} @end macro @comment %**end of header -- 1.9.0 _______________________________________________ M4-patches mailing list M4-patches@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-patches
