Re: Issues with gendocs and images

2012-10-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > That seems to come from makeinfo that treats as a warning missing > sources! > > The idea was that an Info file can very likely still be useful without > the image. The further idea was that most people would not bother to > make a .txt version.

Re: Commas in @example environment

2012-08-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Darrington writes: > $ texi2dvi --version > texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135 > > I do see whitespace where the comma ought to be. Maybe this is > a problem with my TeX installation. I don't know. I think it must be a local problem. I see the comma, with the same texi2dvi version (Debian

Re: colours are all the rage

2011-12-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > What would be the `simplest' way to get code inside @example blocks to > be coloured? Is there a program that can do pre-formating of @example > blocks before output? "source-highlight -f texinfo" looks at first glance to do the

Re: Texinfo macros and m4

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Ben Pfaff >> Cc: k...@freefriends.org, bug-texinfo@gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:23:25 -0700 >> >> Then why is there a problem with macro expansions? > > I tried to explain that earlier, see > > https://list

Re: Texinfo macros and m4

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Ben Pfaff >> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:51:46 -0700 >> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org >> >> Why not just have texi2dvi run the Texinfo source through >> "makeinfo --macro-expand" before running it through TeX? > > texi

Re: Texinfo macros and m4

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
thout introducing a need for a new macro language. (I haven't tried this, though.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Git repository mirror is out of date

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Meyering writes: > If it's only for me, and if there's no hope of it helping to > convert you to git, I won't bother. It is confusing to have it there but be out-of-date, so in that case would you mind disabling it? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

gendoc.sh: Add "-s" option for specifying an alternate source file.

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
s.sh pspp" from the "doc" directory, because doc/pspp.texinfo has @include directives of the form "@include doc/.texinfo". This patch fixes the problem, allowing "gendocs.sh -s doc/pspp.texinfo pspp" to work. 2010-02-13 Ben Pfaff * util/gendocs.sh: A

[patch] Use "($cmd)" in place of "$(cmd)" in gendocs.sh

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
years ago when I was tentatively planning to do some work on it that I never got around to doing.) 2010-02-13 Ben Pfaff * util/gendocs.sh: Use "($cmd)" in place of "$(cmd)" where command substitution is not de

Git repository mirror is out of date

2010-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
I checked out the Git mirror of the Texinfo repository today, to figure out whether some bugs had been fixed, and I noticed that it contains no commits newer than 2009-04-21. Since the CVS repository contains much newer files, I guess the Git repository is out-of-date. If it is synced manually, t

Re: makeinfo bug: macros with no arguments don't work as expected

2009-05-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
nl{}: The braces are required in the invocation (but not the definition), even when the macro takes no arguments, consistent with all other Texinfo commands. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Incorrect handling of quotation marks in @example blocks

2008-12-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
ks have not been formatted > properly. For what it's worth, this output looks the way that I would expect it to look. @example produces typewriter-like output; typewriters don't have fancy double-quotes. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

2008-12-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Noah Slater writes: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:47:49PM +, Noah Slater wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:39:38AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> > It sends the same Accept header (Iceweasel 2.0.0.11), although I think you >> > must have reconfigured the server in th

Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

2008-12-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Noah Slater writes: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:41:38PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html[...] > > My, this is strange. Your Firefox seems to prefer XML over HTML. > >> I don't think I've con

Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Noah Slater writes: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:59:21PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Noah Slater writes: >> >> > Take a look at the following page: >> > >> > http://tumbolia.org/ >> >> Is this supposed to be a conventional webpage? On Fi

Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Noah Slater writes: > Take a look at the following page: > > http://tumbolia.org/ Is this supposed to be a conventional webpage? On Firefox 2.0.0.1 that I have on my laptop here, it shows up as "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree

Texinfo segfault bug, and fix

2008-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
By mistake, I typed the command "makeinfo texinfo.tex" in Texinfo's doc directory and was surprised to get a segfault. I then deleted lines and characters until I reproduced the segfault with a file that contains the following single line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is an attempt to fr

Re: "texi2dvi -l Texinfo" and "texi2dvi -l LaTeX" do not work

2008-05-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
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Re: allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29 Apr 2002, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > In that case, why not use an escape mechanism? For instance, > > disallowed characters could be translated into a pair of hex > > digits representing the character's ASCII va

Re: allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, my real problem is not with `+' per se, but with what will > follow. If `+' is allowed, people will want to have other characters > as well. Before long we will have `:', `|', `<', etc. Where do we > stop, and how do we explain that other

Re: allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > As for the original question, does + in a filename allowed in DOS? If it > doesn't, clearly we cannot allow it. If it does, I think we may as well. If + is not allowed under DOS, a reasonable alternative could be to change them to `-'s or `_'s in normal

Re: allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > Links to anchors won't necessarily redirect to the right place, > > will they? cannot be specialized based on a > > #fragment name. > > Yes, but a name of an an

Re: allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 28 Apr 2002, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > GNU libavl's manual has some anchor names that differ just in one > > character, "-" in one of them, "+" in the other. For the purpose > > of conv

allowing "+" in .html file names

2002-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
GNU libavl's manual has some anchor names that differ just in one character, "-" in one of them, "+" in the other. For the purpose of converting these to HTML with makeinfo, it would be nice if "+" were considered acceptable in .html file names. RFC 2396 says that "+" is okay in URI path compone