On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:46:58AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> tool and therefore which semantics will be encountered). My preference
> would be for preserving the existing semantics, so that the autoconf
> manual does not have to change what it already has in place.
Here is a patch for the autoconf manual which removes the @c in macro
definitions and avoid having @ followed by a newline split macro
invocation line. The second part leads to a better TeX output as @samp
are not split by an end of line anymore which was the case before in my
testings.
--
Pat
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 78a2c67..506d966 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
@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)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
@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
@c Handling the indexes with Texinfo yields several different problems.
@@ -8014,10 +8014,10 @@ variables, respectively. The computed linker flags are
cached in
@code{ac_cv_f77_libs} or @code{ac_cv_fc_libs}, respectively.
@end defmac
-@defmac AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN (@ovar{action-if-found}, @dvar{action-if-not-found, @
- AC_MSG_FAILURE})
-@defmacx AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN (@ovar{action-if-found}, @dvar{action-if-not-found, @
- AC_MSG_FAILURE})
+@defmac AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN (@ovar{action-if-found}, @
+ @dvar{action-if-not-found, AC_MSG_FAILURE})
+@defmacx AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN (@ovar{action-if-found}, @
+ @dvar{action-if-not-found, AC_MSG_FAILURE})
@acindex{F77_DUMMY_MAIN}
@cvindex F77_DUMMY_MAIN
@acindex{FC_DUMMY_MAIN}
@@ -8268,8 +8268,8 @@ results in @code{ac_cv_fc_srcext_@var{ext}} and
@code{ac_cv_fc_pp_srcext_@var{ext}} variables, respectively.
@end defmac
-@defmac AC_FC_PP_DEFINE (@ovar{action-if-success}, @dvar{action-if-failure, @
- AC_MSG_FAILURE})
+@defmac AC_FC_PP_DEFINE (@ovar{action-if-success}, @
+ @dvar{action-if-failure, AC_MSG_FAILURE})
@acindex{FC_PP_DEFINE}
@caindex fc_pp_define
@@ -8287,8 +8287,8 @@ The result of this test is cached in the
@code{ac_cv_fc_pp_define}
variable.
@end defmac
-@defmac AC_FC_FREEFORM (@ovar{action-if-success}, @dvar{action-if-failure, @
- AC_MSG_FAILURE})
+@defmac AC_FC_FREEFORM (@ovar{action-if-success}, @
+ @dvar{action-if-failure, AC_MSG_FAILURE})
@acindex{FC_FREEFORM}
@caindex fc_freeform
@@ -8314,8 +8314,8 @@ The result of this test, or @samp{none} or
@samp{unknown}, is cached in
the @code{ac_cv_fc_freeform} variable.
@end defmac
-@defmac AC_FC_FIXEDFORM (@ovar{action-if-success}, @dvar{action-if-failure, @
- AC_MSG_FAILURE})
+@defmac AC_FC_FIXEDFORM (@ovar{action-if-success}, @
+ @dvar{action-if-failure, AC_MSG_FAILURE})
@acindex{FC_FIXEDFORM}
@caindex fc_fixedform
