On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:28:51AM -0600, Scott Pakin wrote:
> I'm trying to rebuild a large, complex, Texinfo file I wrote back in
> the Texinfo 4 days, and I'm getting zillions of error messages from
> Texinfo 5's makeinfo. I can use some help updating my document to
> work with the latest makeinfo.
>
> My .texi file is extremely macro-heavy, and the Texinfo 5-introduced
> limitation that most commands appear only at the beginning of a line
> seems to be the document's main bugaboo. How am I now supposed to
> write inlinable macros that depend upon non-inlinable commands?
I am not sure I understand the problem correctly. But a @c suppress
more or less an end of line, maybe that could help...
> To
> make that question more concrete, how would one port the following
> Texinfo 4 constructs to Texinfo 5?
>
> @macro cncp {concept}
> @cindex \concept\
> \concept\
> @end macro
>
> @macro foo
> @cncp{Foo}
> @end macro
>
> @macro bar
> @cncp{Bar}
> @end macro
>
> ...
>
> Some things are foolish (@foo{}), and some things are barred
> (@bar{}). Regardless of how @foo{} or @bar{} you are, you should
> look for the following:
>
> @table @cncp
> @item baz
> Found in bazaars
>
> @item quux
> In the vicinity of Equuleus
>
> @item corge
> The most incorrigible
> @end table
See two proposals attached. I have switched the @cindex and the
text in the @cncp macro definition in one of the proposals, to allow
to have the text of the macro invokation appear first on the @item
line. It is not really the same as what you want, still, as you have
to repeat the macro invokation on each @table @item line.
In the second case, the original order is kept, but then another macro
is required for @item lines...
One thing that is really gone is the delayed expansion of user defined
macro on a @table line. Now user defined macros are expanded in the
flow of the texinfo code.
Is it ok?
Note: surprisingly, these exampls work in texi2dvi too...
--
Pat
pb_macro.texi
Description: TeXInfo document
pb_other_macro.texi
Description: TeXInfo document
