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From: mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs,comp.text
Subject: texi2roff for elisp manual
Keywords: texi2roff emacs lisp texinfo
Message-ID: <23@octel.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 19:41:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Octel Communications Corporation
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The emacs programmer's manual has some extra macros in it.  Is there a
new version of texi2roff to support them?  I don't think there is, so I
attempting to add them to your table.  My additions cause some
trouble.  Here is the input file:

@example
(progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar))
@arrow foo
@arrow bar
@Arrow bar
@end example

here is what texinfo-format-buffer produces:

     (progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar))
     -> foo
     -> bar
     => bar

@arrow and @Arrow are not yet defined.  Texi2roff's stdout:

.ND

.PP
.DS
.ft CW
(progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar))
 foo
 bar
 bar
.DE
.ft R

... and stderr:

bar.tex line 4 : unrecognized Texinfo command @arrow
bar.tex line 5 : unrecognized Texinfo command @arrow
bar.tex line 6 : unrecognized Texinfo command @Arrow

Now I add table entries for @arrow and @Arrow:

*** tablems.h	Fri Jun 23 12:18:24 1989
--- tablems.h-dist	Thu Jun 22 17:36:02 1989
***************
*** 35,47 ****
      "@.",		"",	"\\&.",		"",		ESCAPED,
      "@:",		"",	"",		"",		ESCAPED,
      "@@",		"",	"@",		"",		ESCAPED,
-     "@Arrow",		"",	"=>",		"",		INPARA,
      "@TeX{",		"}",	"TeX",		"",		INPARA,
      "@appendix",	"\n",	"\n.bp\n.SH\n", "\n.br\n",	HEADING,
      "@appendixsec",	"\n",	"\n.SH\n",	"\n.br\n",	HEADING,
      "@appendixsubsec",	"\n",	"\n.SH\n",	"\n.br\n",	HEADING,
      "@appendixsubsubsec","\n",	"\n.SH\n",	"\n.br\n",	HEADING,
-     "@arrow",		"",	"->",		"",		INPARA,  
      "@asis",		"\n",	"",		"",		PARAGRAPH,
      "@asis{",		"}",	"",		"",		INPARA,
      "@br",		"\n",	"\n.br\n.sp\n", "",		PARAGRAPH,
--- 35,45 ----

(I think INPARA is the right thing to use here).

Now we get stderr:

bar.tex line 7 : probably @end for unrecognized Texinfo cmd @example

and stdout:

.ND

.PP
.DS
.ft CW
(progn (print 'foo) (print 'bar))
-> foo
-> bar
=> bar

I am not sure I understand the logic of your program, but I believe
that when an @end-able token starts, it is supposed to see the
argument to @end and throw it away.  Instead, it does not recognize
it.

If I can get it working right I will post diff's to the net.  I should
be able to fix the -me table as well.  I do not have the -ms macros.
The new macros needed are:

@Arrow, @arrow, @defcmd, @defconst, @defmac, @defopt, and @defun

Many thanks,

-- 
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