Re: random texinfo questions

[Robert J. Chassell]

David Petrou <address@hidden> is right and I was wrong.  My test
file does not work with frenchspacing.  My apoloigies, I looked at the
wrong output window, and looked too quickly.

All between-word spaces are removed.

\frenchspacing  does not make the buggy output;  \globaldefs = 1  does that.
\frenchspacing  does nothing.

I have been reading the TeXbook and texinfo.tex but cannot figure out
what is going on.

TeX Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
Texinfo version 2001-06-20.16


Here is my test file:


\input texinfo   @c -*-texinfo-*-
@comment %**start of header
@setfilename t1.info
@settitle T1
@smallbook
@comment %**end of header

@tex
\globaldefs = 1
\frenchspacing
@end tex

@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@node top, Chapter One, (dir), (dir)
@ifinfo
@top Test Top
@end ifinfo

@menu
* Chapter One::                 
* Chapter Two::                 
@end menu

@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@node Chapter One, Chapter Two, top, top
@chapter Chapter One

Contents of chapter 1.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public License
is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if
you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.


@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@node Chapter Two,  , Chapter One, top
@chapter Chapter Two

Contents of chapter 2
@cindex bar

The lazy dog opened an eye. 

@menu
* Section TwoA::                
* Section TwoB::                
@end menu

@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@node Section TwoA, Section TwoB, Chapter Two, Chapter Two
@section SectionTwoA

Contents of Section 2A

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@node Section TwoB,  , Section TwoA, Chapter Two
@section Section TwoB

Contents of Section 2B

The lazy dog jumps over the quick brown fox.

@bye

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    Robert J. Chassell                  address@hidden
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com