Re: problems with makeinfo's macro expansion

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:33:14AM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Karl, can you add this (at least the --no-ifinfo)?
> 
> I guess we can add the --no-ifinfo.  We can't add the --iftex without
> work in makeinfo to pass those tokens verbatim.

to be exact, makeinfo has to pass verbatim @tex and @html blocks,
without looking inside.  The @iftex block should still be parsed,
the macro definitions inside them should be read, etc.

OTOH, makeinfo -E can pass the @tex and @html blocks unconditionally,
I see no need to remove them even for --no-ifinfo and --no-ifhtml.

> But don't the sed commands in texi2dvi have essentially the same effect?

No, they don't.  They don't support nested conditionals at all.
(It would be easy to replace the sed script by an awk one to fix this,
but it's not the right thing.)

Have anice day,
        Stepan Kasal