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Re: highlightning texinfo files


On Friday 25 August 2006 01:03, Brooks Moses wrote:
> > >@tex
> > >\gdef\asinh{\mathop{\rm asinh}\nolimits}
> > >@end tex
> > >
> > >@math{-\infty \leq \asinh(x) < \infty}
> > >
> > >The first three lines should probably go right before the paragraph that
> > >includes the math.
> >
> > There is 'gcc/doc/include/texinfo.tex', it might be the appropiate place
> > for such definitions?!
>
> I don't think so.  Texinfo.tex is part of the Texinfo package, not GCC,
> and the copy in gcc/doc/include is only included to ensure a consistent
> up-to-date version -- forking it would almost certainly be a bad idea.

Did not know that. I noticed it while searching for error messages in the 
output of `make dvi`.


> Also, this is something that's really only used in one place, and isn't
> generally useful or a standard usage, so it shouldn't be hidden in the
> global definitions.  Having the definition adjacent to the usage means
> that, if there's a bug with it (or if someone just wonders what \asinh
> does when they're reading the source), it's easy to find.

You are right. I placed the additional commands at the top 
of the intrinsic.texi.


	Daniel


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