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Re: .texinfo/.info files

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From: Arnold Robbins
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 18:53
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I said:
>   Very recent texinfo files may not format correctly with the
>   texinfo-format-buffer in 18.55.

In article <F4k3&114@cs.psu.edu> schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>Really??  That's a bug in 18.55, then?  

No; the texinfo "language" has been evolving for some time.  Much of the
evolution was to accomodate the lisp manual, and started after 18.55
was released.

>If the standalone program is going to be the official way to build
>info files, then having a separate elisp program to do the same job is
>poor engineering.  Has anyone though about this, or are we just going
>to hack away and see what still works in six months?

I expect, but don't actually know it to be a fact, that the next release
of emacs will also have an up to date texinfo-format-buffer.  Or else
texinfo-format-buffer will go away completely.
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