On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have reduced the problematic case to the following minimal example: > > Thank you for taking the time to do this, Norbert. > >> From these two facts I'd declare that the new texinfo.tex that >> you have in Debian is broken. >> (Yes, that is a strong statement; but still breaking something >> that worked dozens of year w/o problems needs VERY good arguments >> before you can call it "progress" !!) > > No-one's said that breaking this usage is progress. It wasn't intended > and we will fix it. > > The problem comes from trying to support the Texinfo macro facility, > the different ways that it's been used in different documents and > managing multiple incompatible implementations of it. It's caused > problems ever since it was introduced, maybe about 20 years ago. > Evidently these problems aren't at an end yet, despite hope. When the > fix is finalized I'll add this breaking usage to our test file to > prevent it breaking again.
Thanks a lot, Gavin! The above sounds very good to me, I'm sorry for my former misunderstanding.. Best regards, and thank you for all the efforts to make info / texinfo even more 'future-proof'! Martin
