Re: How do you define a new texinfo macro?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 9 May 2012 11:03, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  9-May-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | We have a tiny problem with the docstring for mldivide and ldivide.
> | It's using backslashes in a the xcode macro, and texinfo has problems
> | with that:
> |
> |     http://old.nabble.com/backslashes-in-macro-arguments-td28884883.html
> |
> | A suggested workaround is to define a new macro just for backslashes
> | instead of passing backslashes as macro arguments. I was unable to
> | figure out how to do this. I tried monkeying the xcode macro, but I
> | was unable to make it work, so I thought I'd just ask.
>
> You mean the @address@hidden \\ y}} part of the docstring?

Yes, that.

> Hmm, when I do "help mldivide", the backslash from that shows up but
> when I look at the Info version of the manual with "doc mldivide" it
> does not.  That's odd, since both are supposed to be processed with
> makeinfo.

Yeah, it's a problem with texinfo. You can see how Karl Berry above
tried to attack it. A suggested workaround was what I said above.

- Jordi G. H.