[texinfo-pretest] conditional macros problem

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > While I agree that this solves many problems, it has the main drawback
> > that a foo.texinfo document no longer can be processed without
> > makeinfo, and I think this is not acceptable.

??  No, I didn't meant this.  Plain "makeinfo" would still work.
I just meant that "makeinfo -E" would have to be run before running TeX.

> As I already said here, I don't think it's a good idea to introduce a
> macro facility that requires "makeinfo -E", [...] Let's not repeat past
> mistakes.

> [...] the addition of macro support to
> texinfo.tex was embraced as a panacea.  

OK, I wasn't here at the time this happened.

In that case we are pretty much stuck with what we have.  The TeX @macro
implementation has to use \scantokens, so we cannot do much here.

What I could do, is to fix "makeinfo -E" so that even if it won't be
required for macros, using it will be a good workaround for many people.

Thank you, Eli,
	Stepan