Re: Gnu m4 ver1.4 manual (typos & questions)

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 16 April 2001 9:08 pm, Yuji Minejima wrote:
> Hi,

Konichiwa Minejima,

My apologies for taking so long to reply.  Domo.  Arigato.

I have been spending a lot of time with GNU libtool for the last year or so, 
and maintenance of M4 has suffered as a result.

> I've just translated gnu m4 version 1.4 manual into Japanese.

Fantastic!  Thankyou.  Is it still in texinfo?  If so, would you like me to 
distribute it with the sources from gnu.org?  M4 1.5 is due Real Soon Now 
(TM)...

> Here are some typos I found. All line numbers are for m4.texinfo.

Thanks.  Many of these are already fixed in the development version, but I 
have applied those of your suggestions which weren't.

> And I felt the following part of the explanation for changequote is
> somewhat ambiguous because there is no way to omit the first argument
> while providing the first argument.
>
> L.1790
> If any of the arguments are missing, the default
> quotes (@code{`} and @code{'}) are used instead of the void arguments.

I think this is fine as it stands.  For example:

  changequote(foo, bar)
  changequote([)

will eventually set the close quote character to "'" (the default).

> Finally I just found your web site for gnu m4 at
> <http://www.seindal.dk/rene/gnu/>.
> On "feedback.htm" page, you say bug reports should be mailed to
> <address@hidden> but the manual says it's <address@hidden>.
> Should I change the address in my translation to <address@hidden>?

Yes please.  The 1.4 manual is very old, and in some places quite out of 
date.  The current texinfo manual uses <address@hidden>.

> Regards,
> Yuji

Many thanks,
        Gary.
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