\initial {\\}
As I recall, Arnold and I did that as part of the new texindex, so that
backslashes could be properly sorted, etc. It seems semantically
correct to me. Trying to treat {\tt \indexbackslash } as equivalent
to \ seemed poor design.
(Ultimately, what I really want is for the
On 6 July 2015 at 01:42, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote:
sorry for the noise. The problem lies with octave shipping an ancient
texinfo.tex (2009?).
For what it's worth, I just had the exact same problem trying to
compile an old gawk manual (for gawk 3.1.4), again breaking on a line
On 6 July 2015 at 01:42, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote:
I had to change two occurrences of
@SOMECMD{\X}
to
@SOMECMD{\\X}
Is this expected?
Yes. See this thread from a few days ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-07/msg2.html
Hi everyone,
I faintly remember seeing this on the list here, but cannot find
it now in my texinfo mailbox. Anyone remebers something concerning
this:
./octave.cps:56: Argument of \\ has an extra }.
inserted text
\par
to be read again
}
\initial ... .5
l.56 \initial {\\}
Works for me with current texinfo.tex and the input below (to force
creating the \initial line). I don't doubt there was a bug in some
version of texinfo.tex in this regard, but I routinely run Texinfo
documents with \indexentries, so I doubt it existed for long. -k
Hi everyone,
(short: one problem solved, another appeared: @SOMECMD{\X} does not work)
Works for me with current texinfo.tex and the input below (to force
sorry for the noise. The problem lies with octave shipping an ancient
texinfo.tex (2009?). Removing it did bring up two new errors:
As of
