octave-2.1.64, texi2html, and infinite loop on octave.texi

On  4-Jan-2005, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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