bob@AI.MIT.EDU (11/08/90)
I often have trouble formatting texinfo documents. I tend to get
errors like `@ref is not handled by texinfo'.
The only GNU document that should not format with the original
`texinfmt.el' is the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which comes with its
own copy of the new `makeinfo.c' program. All the other released
manuals should still format with the old (1988) `texinfmt.el' with no
problems. (This is theory and perhaps not true. I plan to test
format all the documents in the next few weeks and see.)
I am revising and expanding the Texinfo Manual and incorporating new
commands into `texinfmt.el'. Brian Fox is working on `makeinfo.c',
which is faster and has better error messages than `texinfmt.el'. I
hope that the new manual and new versions of `texinfmt.el',
`texinfo.tex', and `makeinfo.c' will be released before too long.
(How soon exactly, you ask? I don't know, and I am working on both
the Texinfo Manual and texinfmt.el; I hope before the end of the year.
Which year, you ask? Ah... , say I, ... :-)
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