Hi! a8d007db15 starts generating doc/org-version.{tex,inc}, but on my OS X system this ends up creating broken files with (I believe) vertical tab characters in them. On HEAD this morning: $ make card [...] PDFLATEX=pdftex texi2pdf --batch --clean --expand orgcard.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=pdftex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (../../.././orgcard.tex (/Users/dale/repositories/org-mode/doc/org-version.tex /Users/dale/repositories/org-mode/doc/org-version.tex:3: Missing control sequen ce inserted. \inaccessible l.3 \def ersionyear{2017} [...] /opt/local/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting. make[1]: *** [orgcard.pdf] Error 1 make: *** [card] Error 2 $ cat doc/org-version.tex % automatically generated, do not edit \def\orgversionnumber{9.0.9} \def ersionyear{2017} \def\year{2017} I have no idea how that \v is getting turned into a vertical tab. Is make processing these? $ gmake --version GNU Make 4.2.1 Built for x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ cat /tmp/test-makefile single: echo "single: 123\v456" double: echo "double: 123\\v456" quad: echo "quad: 123\\\\v456" $ gmake -f /tmp/test-makefile single double quad echo "single: 123\v456" single: 123 456 echo "double: 123\\v456" double: 123 456 echo "quad: 123\\\\v456" quad: 123\v456 Is this something screwed up in my environment or are others seeing this as well? Thanks, Dale