Re: [help-texinfo] producing index with texi2dvi (fixed)

[Graham Percival]

On 23-May-06, at 2:08 PM, Karl Berry wrote:

>     (@end occurred inside a group at level 4)
>
> That's related to the @quotations not being closed.  Something is
> obviously going wrong in the macro expansion.  With --debug (or
> some other option? Can't remember) it should preserve the intermediate
> file.

Aha, I finally found it!  texi2dvi -E  got confused by this:

@macro internalsref{NAME}
@vindex \NAME\
@code{\NAME\}
@end macro

...
@itemize
...
@b{ @internalsref{Fingering_engraver}}
...

This was expanded into
@b{ @vindex Fingering_engraver
@inforef{Fingering_engraver,,lilypond-internals} }

and texinfo didn't recognize the final } as belonging to the @b (it 
complained about an extra } at the end of line).  I guess that it 
didn't recognize the @end itemize at the end of this list, and thus 
thought that everything else in the manual after that (including @node) 
was part of the @itemize.  No wonder it was unhappy!  :)


I haven't touched this construct at all (ie it's at least two years old 
:) , so it obviously works without -E.  I simply removed the @b{}, 
since it doesn't add much to the example.

Thanks for all the help,
- Graham Percival