Re: Feature request, generating a man page from a node

[Karl Berry]

    I think that's all for now. I'll appreciate any advice.

Well, the problem in the first case is that the file was being read in
Texinfo syntax, for \ is a regular character and @ is the escape
character.  That's the reason for the \tex you found.

Then the problem is that @tex has to start a group, and the @end tex
ends the group, so any non-global assignments within the group are
lost.  So you have to make the assignments global.

However, beyond all that, this approach of making the characters active
and using TeX's primitive accent commands won't suffice.  We must make
the ISO Latin 1 characters be real letters (catcode 11) and use the EC
fonts.  Otherwise hyphenation, among other things, will not work.

Thanks for your efforts.

karl