Bug#487974: texinfo: Tilde in Debian revision breaks builds involving texinfo
On Fr, 13 Mär 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.
You should somehow
\catcode`\~=11
BEFORE \inputing that file, and
\catcode`\~=\active
afterwards.
> 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.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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