Re: Duplicate variable values when using texi2any --pdf -D 'VARIABLE VALUE'

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:56:52PM +0200, Moritz Klammler wrote:
> When texi2any is used as a driver for texi2dvi and variable definitions
> are given on the command line like so,
> 
>     texi2any --pdf -D 'VARIABLE VALUE' document.texi
> 
> texi2any will pass --command='@set VARIABLE VALUE VALUE' to texi2dvi so
> the variable will have a duplicate value. The attached example
> demonstrates this. When running
> 
>     texi2any -D 'TheAnswer 42' document.texi
> 
> the Info file contains "The answer is 42." as expected. However, when
> running
> 
>     texi2any --pdf -D 'TheAnswer 42' document.texi
> 
> then the PDF file will contain "The answer is 42 42." instead.
> 
> It seems that the problem is that texi2any tokenizes the argument given
> to the -D option but then uses the original raw text /followed/ by the
> extracted value, thus effectively duplicating the variable's value.
> 
> The attached patch is supposed to fix this problem.
> 

Thank you very much, I have committed it in commit d8c9d4e81.