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Defining a latex environment in texinfo
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Defining a latex environment in texinfo |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:41:49 -0400 |
On 18-Apr-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| As David pointed out a while ago, the manual contains a lot of
| DOCSTRING's. I think this is acceptable, but it would be better if
| DOCSTRING text was marked more clearly is being the help text of a
| function. This marking could be a box around the help text,
Putting a box around the docstring will require that it not break
across pages, which wil probably cause a lot of bad pagebreaks.
| margin or something like that. I tried experimenting with this by
| changing munge-texi to put a
|
| @iftex
| @tex
| \begin{helptext}
| @end tex
| @end iftex
|
| before a help text, and a similar text after the help text. My problem
| is that I can't figure out how to define the 'helptext' environment. If
| I put a \newenvironment in octave.texi I get an error message when
| running 'make octave.pdf'.
|
| Does anybody here know where I should define new latex environments in
| texinfo?
I think your first problem is that Texinfo is processed with TeX, not
LaTeX.
jwe