Re: latest groff documentation is incompatible with latest GNU texinfo

[Mike FABIAN]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) さんは書きました:

>     Do you have any idea how to fix the bug in texinfo?
>
> I haven't looked into it yet.  @macro problems are not a priority for
> me, and I guess Alper has not had any time to work on Texinfo recently.
>
> I expect you could trivially work around the bug by getting rid of the
> Example and endExample macros in groff.texinfo and just writing out the
> @example&@group, if some sort of fix is time-critical.

I already did that, but then similar problems show up with other
macros. Therefore I thought it might be nicer to fix makeinfo.

But I can probably just go on and expand the other problematic macros
as well.

> There won't be
> another Texinfo release any time soon.
>
> Best,
> karl
>
>
> P.S. I had to look up the old report in the archives to know what you
> were referring to.  For the record, here it is again :).

Thank you.

> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:34:33 +0200 (CEST)
> To: address@hidden
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: latest groff documentation is incompatible with latest GNU
>  texinfo
>
> eggert> The problem is that the latest version of groff has a texinfo
>> file that is rejected by the latest version of GNU texinfo.
>> Here's the output of the above commands:
>> 
>> groff.texinfo:846: Multiline command @group used improperly.
>> groff.texinfo:852: Unmatched address@hidden'.
>> groff.texinfo:852: Unmatched address@hidden'.
>> groff.texinfo:856: Multiline command @group used improperly.
>> groff.texinfo:861: Unmatched address@hidden'.
>> groff.texinfo:861: Unmatched address@hidden'.
>> groff.texinfo:1069: Multiline command @group used improperly.
>> groff.texinfo:1071: address@hidden' expected `table', but saw `group'.
>> groff.texinfo:1071: address@hidden' expected `table', but saw `example'.
>> ...
>> Too many errors!  Gave up.
>
> This is indeed a texinfo bug.  I have
>
>   @macro Example
>   @example
>   @group  
>   @end macro
>
>   @macro endExample
>   @end group
>   @end example
>   @end macro  
>
>   @Example
>   groff -a -man -Tdvi troff.man | less
>   @endExample
>
> and this now fails.
>

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Mike FABIAN   <address@hidden>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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