Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!russell Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: (La)TeXinfo problems. Message-ID: <1991May6.030008.4396@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) Date: Mon, 6 May 91 03:00:08 GMT References: <1991May6.003309.24634@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 32 russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes: >I am having trouble with displaying a Latexinfo document with both Gnu emacs >and the C info program that comes with TeXinfo-2. >In both cases the initial menu does not work. With the C info program you get >a beep and it returns to the menu: prompt. The only way out is to kill the >process. Emacs behaves similarly but also briefly displays a message something >like "function definition void: nil" before returning to the menu: prompt. >Does anybody know what is wrong or have any ideas how I go about finding out? >I have carefully looked at the source file but can't find anything wrong. I did not look carefully enough! sigh.... For the curious: In the menu items in latexinfo one *MUST* have a space separating the * at the start from the menu entry. No errors are given if you don't, they just don't work. Works does not work \begin{menu} \begin{menu} * Chapter 1 .... *Chapter 1 ..... * Chapter 2 .... *Chapter 2 ... \end(menu} \end{menu} -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.