2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index a9c4995d49b..a1d2688470d 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-07-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * emacs.texi (Intro): Workaround makeinfo 4 @acronym bug.  (Bug#18040)
+
 2014-07-09  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
         * search.texi (Regexp Search): Update lax space matching that is
diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
index 51e226dd388..b1cb196c3c2 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
@@ -1476,7 +1476,16 @@ Neal Ziring, Teodor Zlatanov, and Detlev Zundel.
 
   You are reading about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation of the
 advanced, self-documenting, customizable, extensible editor Emacs.
-(The @samp{G} in @acronym{GNU, @acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix} is not silent.)
+(The @samp{G} in
+@c Workaround makeinfo 4 bug.
+@c http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2004-08/msg00009.html
+@iftex
+@acronym{GNU, @acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix}
+@end iftex
+@ifnottex
+@acronym{GNU, GNU's Not Unix}
+@end ifnottex
+is not silent.)
 
   We call Emacs @dfn{advanced} because it can do much more than simple
 insertion and deletion of text.  It can control subprocesses, indent