On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Mr. Peter Ivanyi wrote:
> @'{@ptexi}
Sorry, I'm not familiar with this syntax. What it's supposed to do?
@' is acute accent, but it requires a letter after it, not braces.
And what is @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)
What does "makeinfo --version" print?
> - I cannot use comma in @ref{...}. Sometimes the translated title is so
> long, that I have to use punctuation, like comma.
The Texinfo manual clearly says that commas cannot be used in node
names. They can be used in chapter/section names, though.
> - 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 ??
Texinfo has @- and @hyphenation commands. Did you try to use those?
If so, can you elaborate why they are insufficient?
> There is a huhyph.tex file, but I am not sure how to include it into
> the texinfo format properly.
I'm not sure you can. Karl?
Does something like this work?
@tex
\include huhyph.tex
@end tex
If this isn't possible, perhaps we should add a special command,
either for general-purpose inclusion on the TeX level, or for
specifying language-specific hyphenation?
Alternatively, perhaps txi-hu.tex could include the hyphenation rules?
(Hmm..., I don't see a txi-hu.tex in the latest Texinfo distribution.
Perhaps this is the *real* problem?)
> in English you would say:
>
> Chapter 1.
>
> while in Hungarian:
>
> 1. Fejezet
>
> should be used. How can I solve it ??
I believe there should be txi-hu.tex that should redefine @chapter as
appropriate, no?
> - 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 ??
You could use `strcoll' to sort, but that would make it hard or
impossible to format a Hungarian document in a non-Hungarian locale.
@documentlanguage and @documentencoding are supposed to be the
beginning of a solution to this problem, but implementing them
properly is not an easy task, unfortunately...
