Cannot pdftex the maxima texinfo docs



Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:

> Greetings!  When trying to process the maxima texinfo docs with
> pdftex, I get the following errors:
>
> (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 1999-04-25.15]:
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The problem is that texinfo.tex in maxima/doc/info/ is too old.  It
works for me if I replace it with the version from Texinfo 4.2.

I also needed this change to make it compile without errors:

--- /home/harder/maxima/doc/info/Elliptic.texi	Sat Feb  2 20:44:17 2002
+++ Elliptic.texi	Fri Jul 12 01:14:40 2002
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
 where @math{tau = sn(u,m)} 
 @end ifinfo
 @tex
-$$\int_0^u {\rm dn}(v, m) dv  = \int_0^\tau \sqrt{{1-m t^2}\over{1-t^2}} d\t$$
+$$\int_0^u {\rm dn}(v, m) dv  = \int_0^\tau \sqrt{{1-m t^2}\over{1-t^2}} dt$$
 
 where $\tau = {\rm sn}(u, m)$
 @end tex

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Cheers,
Jesper Harder