From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: texinfo.tex change. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:47:59 +0200 Message-ID: <01c50f2b$Blat.v2.4$d768b0e0@zahav.net.il> References: <876513nswn.fsf@xs4all.nl> <874qgn87cu.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87acqdjnxm.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87hdklaxh2.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108012323 9960 80.91.229.2 (10 Feb 2005 05:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, belanger@truman.edu, Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 06:12:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cz6cN-0006ci-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:11:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cz6r2-0003eB-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cz6pV-00030f-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cz6pP-0002xy-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:25:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cz6pP-0002o4-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cz6LU-00015x-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:54:28 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (tony04-57-217.inter.net.il [80.230.57.217]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AMZ70547 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:54:10 +0200 (IST) Original-To: belanger@truman.edu X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <87hdklaxh2.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (message from Jay Belanger on Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:46:17 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33173 > From: Jay Belanger > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:46:17 -0600 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, belanger@truman.edu, "Kim F. Storm" > > >> makeinfo --version says: > >> > >> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.3 > > I currently have Texinfo 4.8. > I'll add a definition for @LaTeX in calc.texi, so it won't matter > which version of makeinfo is used (I hope). Please don't: you cannot do that in a way that would avoid problems with versions of Texinfo that do support @LaTeX. > > @LaTeX{} was introduced in Texinfo 4.7 (9 April 2004). I'll update > > README that currently says that Texinfo 4.2 or later is needed. > > The change to calc.texi will still be needed. Why do we need to use @LaTeX{} in calc.texi? What's so important about this macro that it must be used there? In general, we don't want to force users to install too recent versions of Texinfo, so the very recent introductions should be avoided if possible.