Hello,
I have translated half of the GAWK manual. But I have some "serious"
problem with the texinfo format.
In Hungarian we use several accented letters, like
@'a
@'e
...
@"o
@"u
...
@H{o}
@H{u}
and
@'{@ptexi}
Problems are the following with "texi2dvi,v 0.8 1998/02/26 21:13:13" which
comes with the latest teTeX (actually the problems are in the sub-programs,
like makeinfo)
- Running texi2dvi I get this with --debug option
-------------------------------------------------------
Macro-expanding gawk.tex to /tmp/txi2d.22398/gawk.texi ...
+ makeinfo --footnote-style=end -E /tmp/txi2d.22398/gawk.texi -o /dev/null
gawk.tex
gawk.tex:561: Misplaced {.
gawk.tex:561: Unknown command `ptexi'.
gawk.tex:561: Misplaced }.
gawk.tex:563: Misplaced {.
gawk.tex:563: Unknown command `ptexi'.
gawk.tex:563: Misplaced }.
gawk.tex:562: Misplaced {.
...
--------------------------------------------------------
which obviously does not like the @'{@ptexi} combination. Any way to fix
this ??
- I cannot use comma in @ref{...}. Sometimes the translated title is so
long, that I have to use punctuation, like comma. But of course that would
be interpreted as a normal comma, separating the components of @ref.
(This is not that important,but would be nice.)
- I need hyphenation !!! Without this the postscript version is useless. At
the moment I use some ugly hack, using initex, etc., but this is not
perfect, because somehow it does not take into account the accented letters
at separation points. I can give some examples if necessary. Any way to fix
this ??
Giving \hyphenation for several word is not good, because with one little
modification everything would change, and I have to check the whole book
again for hyphenation. (The Hungarian hyphenation is totally different from
English. There is a huhyph.tex file, but I am not sure how to include it
into the texinfo format properly.)
- I can see that, now there is some attempt for the internationalisation of
the texinfo.tex. Well, that is just not enough for me, because in English
you would say:
Chapter 1.
while in Hungarian:
1. Fejezet
should be used. How can I solve it ?? (I have already changed an older
version of texinfo.tex manually, locally. Is there some better way ??)
- Index (texindex) should somehow be able to sort the elements with
accented characters as well. At the moment it consideres the letter without
accents, which is wrong in Hungarian. Any suggestion to fix it ??
Unfortunately the TeX part of texinfo.tex is way beyond me, so I am looking
for some directions or solutions.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Peter Ivanyi
PS: For 4 days I will go to a conference, but after that I am happy to
answer any questions.
