The same problem occures with texinfo-4.0, so it's probably worth reporting this to "The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys": cd c:\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\man\gnus\ d:\tmp\texinfo-4.0\makeinfo\makeinfo.exe --iftex gnus.texi Compilation started at Tue Jul 11 15:28:02 2000 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) gnus.texi:17: Unknown command `iflatex'. gnus.texi:18: Misplaced {. gnus.texi:18: Misplaced }. <95 lines deleted by Adrian> gnus.texi:44: Misplaced {. gnus.texi:44: Misplaced }. Too many errors! Gave up.