Bug#534458: texinfo: tildes are shown when compiling (La)TeX files

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@lrde.epita.fr>]

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-4
Severity: normal


The patch applied to fix #487974 turned ~ into characters that show up
everywhere.  This might be OK when compiling texinfo files, but
texi2dvi is also used to compile (La)TeX files, where ~ should be a
space (this is documented in the manual and in the --help text of
texi2dvi).  As I'm using texi2dvi only to compile (La)TeX files these
days, this change has made the script unusable for me.


How to reproduce:

% cat >x.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Foo~bar.
\end{document}
% texi2dvi x.tex
% xdvi x.dvi  # <- We don't want to see any tilde in the output.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

texinfo recommends no packages.

Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
ii  texinfo-doc-nonfree        4.13a-1       texinfo and info documentation tha
ii  texlive-base               2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii  texlive-generic-recommende 2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic ma
ii  texlive-latex-base         2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

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