Re: makeinfo 4.7

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Eli!

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:46:53AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:15:46 -0400
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk

> > > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:11:49 +0100
> > > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > > Cc: "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org

> > > cc-mode.texi uses @headitem, which was also first introduced in
> > > Texinfo 4.7.  How many other manuals also use 4.[78] features?

> > If someone can run "make info" with makeinfo 4.2, we will know for
> > sure.

> I just did try that, and these two manuals are the only ones that fail
> to build with makeinfo 4.2.  cc-mode uses @headitem and @tie, and rcirc
> uses @indicateurl.

> So I think it should be fairly easy to fix the manuals and avoid
> forcing more people to gratuitously upgrade their Texinfo
> installations.  Personally, I hate it when a new package I install (in
> this case Emacs) requires me to upgrade a whole slew of other packages
> for no good reason; I certainly wouldn't want us to do that to others.

I can certainly empathise wholeheartedly with that.  ;-)

@w can be used instead of @tie.  Is there a canonical backwards
compatible equivalent of @headitem?  Perhaps @b round each word?

-- 
Alan.