Robert Dodier <robert_dodier@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Update of /cvsroot/maxima/maxima/doc/info
> In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv11362/doc/info
>
> Modified Files:
> Simplification.texi
> Log Message:
> Cut out @findex and @vindex entries for FACSUM, COLLECTTERMS, FACTORFACSUM,
> NEXTLAYERFACTOR, and FACSUM_COMBINE. These were in the text for EXPAND.
> These were the only occurrences of @findex and @vindex in all the texi
> files in maxima/doc/info/. The presence of these @findex and @vindex
> entries made DESCRIBE print out spurious text for FACSUM, etc, (namely
> all the text from there to the end of the file). FACSUM, etc appear to
> be entirely undocumented, so DESCRIBE now returns false for these items.
Well... I put them there :-) The reason is that the EXPAND entry
contains a pointer to the documentation for FACSUM and friends. The
`i' FACSUM command (in standalone-info or Emacs info) will bring you
to this pointer. However, you are right, these index entry commands
confuse DESCRIBE, so it's certainly OK to eliminate them.
On the other hand, with the info files generated by makeinfo 4.7,
DESCRIBE seems to give spurious output in many cases (e.g., try
`describe(untellrat);'), so we should make cl-info.lisp more robust,
anyway, at some point.
Wolfgang