[texinfo-pretest] conditional macros problem

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Wed Feb 9 13:25:10 EST 2005


> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:19:50 +0100
> From: Stepan Kasal <kasal at ucw.cz>
> 
> > Passing --iftex isn't a solution since I get fatal errors.
> 
> This is what should be fixed.  makeinfo tries to parse contents of @tex,
> which is not it's bussiness.  Similar issue with @html, I guess.

I don't see why this should be considered a bug.  The Texinfo manual
clearly says that using the --ifFORMAT switch processes @ifFORMAT and
@FORMAT, so --iftex should indeed process @tex.

In other words, it's a feature.


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