Ok, thanks a lot for these details. I'm indeed worried about the users of
my package, thus I'm in favor of including the file texinfo.tex in my
package.
However, when I copy the latest version of the file into the doc/
directory, the quotes are now correct, but the URLs are not anymore.
Instead of appearing as red links in the pdf, the URL is copied beside the
corresponding text. For instance:
@url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor,Bayes factors}
appears as:
Bayes factors (https: / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Bayes_factor)
Any idea why?
Timothée Flutre
2014-06-20 20:18 GMT+02:00 Karl Berry <[email protected]>:
> Hi Tim,
>
> It's quite usual for packages to include a copy of texinfo.tex,
> precisely to reduce cross-dependencies. But I understand not wanting to.
>
> Anyway, the version of texinfo.tex that comes with texinfo-5.2 would
> work fine too (those commands have been there for a few years). That's
> not the problem. The problem is that any new texinfo.tex, whether it's
> the one from ftp[mirror].gnu.org or the texinfo-5.2 release or wherever,
> has to be installed in a place where TeX will see it. Clearly
> TEXMF=$HOME/texmf is not such a place at your site; that was just an
> example.
>
> In general, there is no practical way for the Texinfo package to know
> how the local TeX installation works. Usually it would not have
> privileges to overwrite the existing texinfo.tex anyway, or it would be
> undesirable to do so, or who knows what. The sysadmins have to do the
> right thing. Maybe you could send them a newer texinfo.tex and they'd
> be willing to install it?
>
> There are various ways that you could set things up so that you
> personally could find texinfo.tex. One would be to set the TEXINPUTS
> environment variable to, I think,
> $HOME/texmf/tex/texinfo:
> Notice and include the trailing colon -- everything will fail without that.
> This won't help the users of your package, of course, if you're worried
> about that.
>
> (That is, I'm guessing you still have a ~/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> as a result of your make install-tex.)
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
> P.S. I'll be offline this weekend, so further complications here will
> have to wait until next week to be resolved :).
>
