[pdftex] Possible bug in pdftexinfo.tex

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Feb 12 15:35:49 CET 2001


> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:28:18 -0500
> From: karl at freefriends.org
> 
>     My belief is that you should just use the texinfo.tex from the texinfo 4.0
>     distribution (or later), 
> 
> Right.
> 
>     and use texi2dvi --pdf.  
> 
> Or run
>   pdftex filename.texi
> (modulo macro expansion or other issues that texi2dvi can affect.)

You'll need to run it more than once and call texindex on index files
(and to work out which ones are relevant), if you have a moderately
complicated .texi file.   When one is used to texi2dvi, one does not
even know what the `other issues' are....


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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