Kai> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: mb> You must be using some old broken makeinfo. Kai> Well, I am using the makeinfo that comes with the latest SuSE Kai> Linux-distribution (6.3) and apparently that one is too old since I am Kai> affected by this very problem. So my guess would be that there are Kai> quite a few "old makeinfos" out there. OK, I dug up a copy of texinfo-3.12, and then proceeded to test compiling our info files with makeinfo texinfo-3.12, texinfo-3.12f and texinfo-4.0, and with TeX. texinfo-4.0 introduces new commands that we don't want to use (yet) to maintain backward compatibility with old makeinfos, so it makes sense to provide our old texinfo.texi from a content point of view as well, since it documents how to write texinfo files for XEmacs. I am therefore reverting texinfo.texi to the previous version which was imported from some texinfo 3.x version, and am making this additional small change to avoid texinfo-4.0 warnings: Index: texinfo.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/man/texinfo.texi,v retrieving revision 1.8.2.2 diff -u -r1.8.2.2 texinfo.texi --- texinfo.texi 1999/07/22 06:19:49 1.8.2.2 +++ texinfo.texi 1999/12/05 18:41:58 ＠＠ -14206,7 +14206,7 ＠＠ (thousandths of an inch) remain on the current page. ＠xref{need, , ＠code{＠＠need}}.(a)refill -＠item ＠＠node ＠var{name, next, previous, up} +＠item ＠＠node ＠var{name}, ＠var{next}, ＠var{previous}, ＠var{up} Define the beginning of a new node in Info, and serve as a locator for references for ＠TeX{}. ＠xref{node, , ＠code{＠＠node}}.(a)refill After this, `make info' should work warning-free for all 3 makeinfo versions. ohhhh, and this change to allow creation of .dvi files (TeX is never actually happy with any source files, but at least it doesn't abort.) --- texinfo.texi 1999/07/22 06:19:49 1.8.2.2 +++ texinfo.texi 1999/12/05 18:54:54 ＠＠ -7448,13 +7448,6 ＠＠ ＠tex % Remove extra vskip; this is a kludge to counter the effect of display \vskip-3\baselineskip -{\ninett -\dots{} to make sure that you have the freedom to -distribute copies of free software (and charge for -this service if you wish), that you receive source -code or can get it if you want it, that you can -change the software or use pieces of it in new free -programs; and that you know you can do these things.} ＠end tex ＠end display ＠end ifclear