Re: flex-2.5.10: make flex.dvi failes

[W. L. Estes]

On Sunday, 28 July 2002,23:30 -0400, Bernd Prager wrote:

> I want to get a hardcopy of the current documentation (flex-2.5.10)
> and invoked 'make flex.dvi'. Unfortunately it failes with:
> 
> ------------ snip -----------------
>   make flex.dvi
> TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" \
> MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /root/Downloads/flex-2.5.10/missing --run makeinfo   -I .'
> \
> texi2dvi flex.texi
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (/root/Downloads/flex-2.5.10/flex.texi
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 1999-09-25.10]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns,
> macros,
> cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
> and turning on texinfo input format.) (flex.aux
> ! Missing @endcsname inserted.
> <to be read again>
>                    @fam
> @tt ->@fam
>            @ttfam @tentt
> @t #1->address@hidden
>             @rawbackslash @frenchspacing address@hidden
> <argument> Why address@hidden I
>                        use fast or full tables with interactive mode?-title
> @xrdef address@hidden @expandafter @gdef @csname X#1
>                                                   @endcsname
> l.187 ...full tables with interactive mode?-title}
>                                                   {Why can't I use fast or
> f...
> 
> ?
> ------------ snip -----------------
> 
> Any suggestions?

Yes. texi2dvi is choking on several things in the faq.texi part of the
manual. I'll commit the changes and put out a new cvs snapshot later
today.

Look in:

ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/

later on today (like say about 3:00pm eastern time (gmt-4)) for a
snapshot file with today's date on it. If you dont want to deal with
the whole cvs snapshot thing, then just copy the file faq.texi out of
the snapshot directory and into your flex-2.5.10 directory.

Thanks,

--Will