Re: bug with `texi2dvi -e'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:37:56 +0100 (CET)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> 
> Even better, it should be fixed as outlined in a mail
> recently sent to the texinfo-pretest list by introducing a new command
> @emacro which is the same as @macro with the exception that after
> address@hidden FOO' the call @FOO stays unexpanded for `makeinfo -E'.

As someone who hacked makeinfo's macro code quite a bit, I think that
way lies madness.  The macro-expansion code is already overloaded with
lots of hidden assumptions, like when to expand and when not to expand
them in recursive macros, depending on whether we are under -E or not,
under --iftex or not, etc.  Adding yet another subtly different macro
construct would be a lot of effort for relatively small benefits.