Texinfo macros and m4

2011-08-23 Thread Karl Berry
Werner and all, Regarding macros in general. I've been trying, and I have become skeptical that there is any way to devise a new Texinfo macro command that does not run afoul of many of the same issues. In particular, TeX cannot precisely control behavior at newlines, and newline-delimited comman

Re: backslash no longer works in indices

2011-08-23 Thread Karl Berry
No. The documentation snippet you've quoted in a previous mail is already present in version 4.13 (slightly reworded). Yes, I know. I didn't mean to imply it was that recent. What I know is that neither I nor anyone else looked at the documentation at some point and said "oh, we better

Re: Difficulties with texi2dvi. Help, please!

2011-08-23 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Alan, ! Font \circle=lcircle10 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Your distro should provide this font, which has been a standard part of (La)TeX for a couple of decades. I suggest you complain. (Or you can install the native TeX Live to avoid leaving yourself at the mercy of

Re: texi2pdf and image width

2011-08-23 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Reinhold, However, it seems that an image needs to be smaller than the actual text width. I don't think so. I see a discrepancy only because of PDF/PostScript points vs. TeX points. Adobe points ("big points" = bp in TeX) are 72/inch. TeX points are 72.27/inch (= pt in TeX, the tra

Difficulties with texi2dvi. Help, please!

2011-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Texinfo. I'm running on a newish, up to date Gentoo Gnu/Linux system. I type: $ texi2dvi -V --tidy cc-mode.texi and it fails to produce output or give an error message. The file /cc-mode.t2d/version_test/txiversion.log ends with: ! Font \circle=lcircle10 not loadable: Metric (