From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Apr 27 21:33:36 2005
Subject: octave-2.1.64, texi2html, and infinite loop on octave.texi
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math dot utah dot edu>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, sysstaff@math.utah.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:32:14 -0400

On  4-Jan-2005, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math dot utah dot edu> wrote:

| On each of these systems, texi2html reports these warnings:
| 
| ** Unknown command with braces ` at deftypefnx' (in ./control.texi l. 717)
| *** '{' without macro before:  at var{siglist} =} sysgetsignals (@var{sys}, @var{sigid}) (in ./control.texi l. 717)
| *** '}' without opening '{' before:  sysgetsignals ( at var{sys}, @var{sigid}) (in ./control.texi l. 717)
| ** Unknown command with braces ` at deftypefnx' (in ./control.texi l. 718)
| *** '{' without macro before:  at var{signame} =} sysgetsignals (@var{sys}, @var{sigid}, @var{signum}, @var{strflg}) (in ./control.texi l. 718)
| *** '}' without opening '{' before:  sysgetsignals ( at var{sys}, @var{sigid}, @var{signum}, @var{strflg}) (in ./control.texi l. 718)
| ** Unknown command with braces ` at deftypefn' (in ./control.texi l. 4358)
| *** '{' without macro before: } axis2dlim ( at var{axdata}) (in ./control.texi l. 4358)
| *** '}' without opening '{' before:  axis2dlim ( at var{axdata}) (in ./control.texi l. 4358)
| ***  at end deftypefn without corresponding opening (in ./control.texi l. 4375)
| ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)
| ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)
| ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)
| ** Unknown command with braces ` at deftypefn' (in ./audio.texi l. 115)
| ***  at end deftypefn without corresponding opening element (in ./audio.texi l. 118)

I think I've fixed all of these except

  | ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)
  | ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)
  | ** closing `deftypefn' (in ./image.texi l. 7)

Can you explain what this error message means?

Debian currently has texi2html 1.66 in testing.  I tried downloading
1.76 from cvshome.org, but the download page seems broken at the
moment.

Thanks,

jwe



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