Cannot pdftex the maxima texinfo docs



Jesper Harder ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> 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
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 

Strange but I don't observe your problems.  I've just replaced d\t by dt
as you mention above (I guess this is just simple TeX typo, d\ t or dt 
is meant).  After this both tex maxima.texi and pdftex maxima.texi
works well to me with texinfo.tex in Maxima CVS.

Best wishes,

Vadim

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