Re: Using a macro makes pdfetex quits and exits with bad status

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 6:53 PM Christopher Dimech <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> @macro usubsec {label, titl}
>
> @set lb \label\
> @set tl \titl\
> @ifclear usubsec-no-label
>    @unnumberedsubsec @value{lb} @ @value{tl}
> @end ifclear
>
> @ifset usubsec-no-label
>   @unnumberedsubsec @value{tl}
> @end ifset
>
> @end macro
>

This appears to work OK?

Eli gave you good advice about putting the macro definition inside the
conditionals rather than the other way around although I don't know if
that is part of the problem here.

I remember you had problems with newlines in macro arguments before
but I thought we had fixed them. It wouldn't be surprising if there
were still problems though.

$ pdfetex test.texi
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)
(preloaded format=pdfetex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.texi (./texinfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2021-04-25.21]: pdf,
fonts, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc,
environments, defuns, macros, cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) [1{/var/lib/t
exmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] )</usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts
/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 13595 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

\input texinfo

@macro usubsec {label, titl}

@set lb \label\
@set tl \titl\
@ifclear usubsec-no-label
   @unnumberedsubsec @value{lb} @ @value{tl}
@end ifclear

@ifset usubsec-no-label
  @unnumberedsubsec @value{tl}
@end ifset

@end macro

@usubsec{16D,
Utilisation of Rapid Computations}

@set usubsec-no-label

@usubsec{16D,
Utilisation of Rapid Computations}

@bye