[texinfo-pretest] conditional macros problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:25:37 +0100
> From: Stepan Kasal <kasal at ucw.cz>
> Cc: texinfo-pretest at texinfo.org
> 
> > I don't see why this should be considered a bug.  The Texinfo manual
> > clearly says that using the --ifFORMAT switch processes @ifFORMAT and
> > @FORMAT, so --iftex should indeed process @tex.
> > 
> > In other words, it's a feature.
> 
> Well, it's an unimplemented feature...
> makeinfo parses the content of @tex as if it were written in the Texinfo
> language.  But the code is written in the TeX language.

That doesn't mean unimplemented, only that the implementation could be
improved.

> To meet the documentation makeinfo would have to be able to interpret the
> TeX language, ie. contain most of TeX embedded.

No, it just needs to skip the whole @tex block and output it verbatim.