Re: backslash no longer works in indices

2011-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
there has been an backwards incompatible change within texinfo.tex (to follow the documentation) I don't recall for sure, but I think it's far more likely that I wrote a new item in the documentation to describe the behavior. No. The documentation snippet you've quoted in a

Re: backslash no longer works in indices

2011-08-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Patrice, can you check how TP behaves with @funindex \\q? Currently it leaves \\q. As I can see in the code, if the macro takes te line as argument, no processing of the line is done at all. If takes an argument in brace (even if it is only one argument), the 2 backslashes lead to one,

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

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

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

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