standalone Info: no @copying text?

standalone Info: no @copying text?

[Robert J. Chassell]

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.140 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2003-07-16
info (GNU texinfo) 4.6

I happened to look at an Info file both in GNU Emacs Info and in the
standalone Info.  The GNU Emacs Info correctly shows the @copying
text, but the standalone Info does not.

Does this mean that the standalone Info has not yet been updated to
handle @copying?  (I never use the standalone Info so I am not aware
of such matters.)

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Re: standalone Info: no @copying text?

[Luc Teirlinck]

Robert Chassell wrote:

   GNU Emacs 21.3.50.140 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2003-07-16
   info (GNU texinfo) 4.6

   I happened to look at an Info file both in GNU Emacs Info and in the
   standalone Info.  The GNU Emacs Info correctly shows the @copying
   text, but the standalone Info does not.

I use "info (GNU texinfo) 4.6" too and always seem to get the @copying
text in the stand-alone Info.  Do your INFOPATH environment variable
and your `Info-directory-list' Elisp variable contain the same
directories in exactly the same order?  Your stand-alone Info reader
could be using an old .info file.

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: standalone Info: no @copying text? [False alarm]

[Robert J. Chassell]

False alarm!  The standalone Info reader works OK.

Yesterday I wrote:

      I happened to look at an Info file both in GNU Emacs Info and in the
      standalone Info.  The GNU Emacs Info correctly shows the @copying
      text, but the standalone Info does not.

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> asked:

   Do your INFOPATH environment variable and your
   `Info-directory-list' Elisp variable contain the same directories
   in exactly the same order?  Your stand-alone Info reader could be
   using an old .info file.

That was the problem.  Since I never use it, I had forgot that the
standalone Info might be somewhat different from the GNU Emacs Info.
It was, and now that I go to the right .info files, all is well.

My apologies for all this.

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    Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.teak.cc                             bob@rattlesnake.com

Re: standalone Info: no @copying text?

[Karl Berry]

    The GNU Emacs Info correctly shows the @copying
    text, but the standalone Info does not.

What do you mean by "correctly"?  

    Does this mean that the standalone Info has not yet been updated to
    handle @copying?

There is nothing to handle, as far as Info format goes.  The @copying
text is simply output at beginning of each output file (before the first
node), and as far as I knew, neither emacs nor standalone info
ordinarily display it.

If you mean as a result of @insertcopying{} in the Top node (for
instance), then standalone info should surely display it, and as far as
I can tell, it does.

What manual are you seeing this behavior in?