[texinfo-pretest] conditional macros problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:15:03 +0100 (CET)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>
> Cc: texinfo-pretest at texinfo.org
> 
> While I agree that this solves many problems, it has the main drawback
> that a foo.texinfo document no longer can be processed without
> makeinfo, and I think this is not acceptable.
> 
> Perhaps a compromise is a better solution: Leave @macro as-is and
> introduce a new command, say, @macrox, which needs makeinfo for
> expansion.

As I already said here, I don't think it's a good idea to introduce a
macro facility that requires "makeinfo -E", because that will reveal
other problems.  (I know that because there was time when texinfo.tex
didn't support macros, which forced people to use "makeinfo -E".  The
results were so unsatisfactory that the addition of macro support to
texinfo.tex was embraced as a panacea.  Let's not repeat past
mistakes.)