Which version of Texinfo do we require?

Which version of Texinfo do we require?

[John Wiegley]

I tried building elisp.pdf in emacs-25, and the build failed on line 560 of
frames.texi:

    @itemize @w

Changing it to "@w{}" causes the build to go through. I'm using texinfo 6.0.
The docs say:

  "If you don’t specify a mark command, the default is @bullet. If you don’t
  want any mark at all, but still want logical items, use @w{} (in this case
  the braces are required)."

In this a bug, or is it my version of Texinfo?

John

Re: Which version of Texinfo do we require?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:14:54 -0800
> 
> I tried building elisp.pdf in emacs-25, and the build failed on line 560 of
> frames.texi:
> 
>     @itemize @w
> 
> Changing it to "@w{}" causes the build to go through. I'm using texinfo 6.0.
> The docs say:
> 
>   "If you don’t specify a mark command, the default is @bullet. If you don’t
>   want any mark at all, but still want logical items, use @w{} (in this case
>   the braces are required)."
> 
> In this a bug, or is it my version of Texinfo?

It was a mistake in the Texinfo source.  @w requires braces
(confusing, I know, because @bullet doesn't).

Re: Which version of Texinfo do we require?

[David Kastrup]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried building elisp.pdf in emacs-25, and the build failed on line 560 of
> frames.texi:
>
>     @itemize @w
>
> Changing it to "@w{}" causes the build to go through. I'm using texinfo 6.0.
> The docs say:
>
>   "If you don’t specify a mark command, the default is @bullet. If you don’t
>   want any mark at all, but still want logical items, use @w{} (in this case
>   the braces are required)."
>
> In this a bug, or is it my version of Texinfo?

The braces after @w are always required.  "don't specify a mark
command" means

    @itemize

on its own without a following @w.  The braces are probably not required
with

    @itemize @bullet

but I'm not sure about it.  But that's likely the case that the
documentation was talking about.

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Which version of Texinfo do we require?

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> It was a mistake in the Texinfo source.  @w requires braces
> (confusing, I know, because @bullet doesn't).

@w takes an argument, @bullet doesn't.

Andreas.

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