Bug#487974: texinfo: Tilde in Debian revision breaks builds involving texinfo
On 13 March 2009 at 14:14, Norbert Preining wrote:
| On Fr, 13 M r 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > | Yesterday Norbert uploaded a new texlive package, which solved the
| > | problem. Would you be so kind to check?
|
| The problem solved was with respect to recompilation, but the ~ problem
| in pdftex is still present!
|
| > <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.9.0~
| > 20090312/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
|
| ~ is still an active character, so that cannot work out of the box.
|
| Sorry, that is not something TeX can actually fix, nor texi2dvi or
| anyone else but rewriting the tex engine.
|
| THe problem is that active characters behave badly if used as file
| names.
|
| That *is*impossible* to be changed.
Good point. But if I recall correctly, then Kurt (whom you may know from his
TU Wien days and who is still just a local phone call away) once told me that
Karl Berry supposedly had a fix for this. But maybe both Kurt and I were
dreaming and this is a 'cannot be fixed'. Which would be a pity as Debian
does allow ~ in filenames for the nice 'sorts lower than empty string' trick
that is so suitable for pre-releases.
| You should somehow
| \catcode`\~=11
| BEFORE \inputing that file, and
| \catcode`\~=\active
| afterwards.
Kurt, can you do that to the texinfo sources?
| > That is unchanged from previous releases and looks like the texinfo bug is
| > not yet fixed.
|
| I am not sure that this can be fixed at all ...
|
| texinfo can set the catcode for ~ to 11 before inputting a file, but
| then it will be like that for all the input-ed file, which is NOT a good
| idea.
|
| I will ask upstream texinfo about ideas.
Keep us posted, and thanks for all your help on libpoppler rebuilds and now
this!
Cheers from chilly Chicago, Dirk
| Best wishes
|
| Norbert
|
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| Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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