[help-texinfo] Indenting a block of text

2011-11-11 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
Hi, how can I indent a specific block of text? I'm currently using @quotation / @end quotation for this but it narrows both margins which I don't like. I just want to have some indentation on the left side, not on the right side. Here's an example: This is a line of normal text. This is a line

Re: [help-texinfo] Indenting a block of text

2011-11-13 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 13.11.2011 at 00:57 k...@freefriends.org wrote: >This is a line of normal text. > This is a block of indented text. > This is a block of indented text. >This is a line of normal text. > >From this sample, I'm not sure what you want. If the idea is for your >text to be autom

Re: [help-texinfo] Indenting a block of text

2011-11-15 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 14.11.2011 at 01:14 k...@freefriends.org wrote: >Now that I see your actual example, what comes to mind is to use @table, >which outputs in exactly this format. You can reduce the "internal" >texinfo.tex parameter to minimize the indentation. >[...] Thanks, this is really helpful! For the con

Re: [help-texinfo] Indenting a block of text

2011-11-16 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 15.11.2011 at 23:18 k...@freefriends.org wrote: >Hi Andreas, > >should use a tableindent value of .5cm while all other tables should >use the default tableindent value? Is that possible somehow? > >You'll have to switch it back and forth manually. Here's one >possibility, untested: > >

[help-texinfo] Hyperlinks in Texinfo

2011-11-25 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
Hi, is it possible to create hyperlinks in Texinfo? E.g. I'd like to do the following: Click here to for more information. I want the word "here" to be marked as a hyperlink so that when the user clicks on it, the document jumps to a predefined location. Admittedly, this doesn't make sense fo

Re: [help-texinfo] Hyperlinks in Texinfo

2011-11-25 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
>Click here to for more information. -to

Re: [help-texinfo] Hyperlinks in Texinfo

2011-11-25 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 25.11.2011 at 22:50 k...@freefriends.org wrote: >is it possible to create hyperlinks in Texinfo? > >@url{http://whatever, here} > >http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/texinfo/uref.html Thanks, but I don't want to jump to an Internet site but just to another node inside the document. Is that poss

Re: [help-texinfo] Hyperlinks in Texinfo

2011-11-26 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 26.11.2011 at 09:31 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:54:28 +0100 >> From: "Andreas Falkenhahn" >> Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org >> >> On 25.11.2011 at 22:50 k...@freefriends.org wrote: >> >> >is it possible to create hyp

[help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

2011-12-26 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
Hi, I'm currently experiencing some trouble trying to convert my *.texi documentation into the HTML format. I want to convert my *.texi doc into a framed HTML version. The table of contents should be in the left frame and I want the actual contents in the right frame. Each node in my texi file

Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

2011-12-26 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 26.12.2011 at 19:24 Patrice Dumas wrote: >Which version of texi2html are you using? 1.82 >That looks possibly correct, however, keep in mind that texi2html, by >default, uses sectioning commands, and not nodes to delimitate the >elements output. If you want nodes to be used, from the top of

Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

2011-12-26 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 26.12.2011 at 21:20 ilusionoflife wrote: >On Monday 26 December 2011 21:09:19 Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> t why? How to fix that? There are zero warnings when running texi2pdf on >> this document... and it's over 700 pages! Why does texi2html suddenly >> begin to lam

Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

2011-12-26 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 26.12.2011 at 23:47 Patrice Dumas wrote: >> Thanks, book.init seems to do the trick but there's still one flaw: When >I >> select the first chapter in the left frame, the whole TOC appears again >> in the right frame and the contents of the first chapter are at the very >end >> of the TOC. So t

Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

2011-12-27 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 27.12.2011 at 01:15 Patrice Dumas wrote: >On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:39:30AM +0100, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> On 26.12.2011 at 23:47 Patrice Dumas wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot, now it's working indeed! There's just one minor problem >left: >> For foo.tex

[help-texinfo] Localizing texi2pdf

2016-05-31 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
;Siehe" whenever @see is used, "Inhaltsverzeichnis" instead of "Table of contents" etc. Is this possible somehow? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: [help-texinfo] Localizing texi2pdf

2016-05-31 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 31.05.2016 at 21:55 Gavin Smith wrote: > On 31 May 2016 at 20:51, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> How can I localize texi2pdf? Currently, it always uses English names like >> "Chapter n" or when using @see it always expands to "See ...". Can this >> be c

[help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-05-31 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
all chapters but incorrectly on the page. On the page it simply appears as "bersicht" in that case. So how can I make texinfo to render the text correctly on the page and in the overview of all chapters that appears in Acrobat Reader's side panel? -- Best regards, Andre

Re: [help-texinfo] Localizing texi2pdf

2016-05-31 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 31.05.2016 at 22:22 Gavin Smith wrote: > On 31 May 2016 at 21:02, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> Thanks, using >> @documentlanguage de >> indeed changes "Chapter" to "Kapitel" and "See" to "Siehe" BUT: >> I still get &quo

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-01 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
Only for > purposes of the PDF bookmarks, nothing else ... not offering to > implement it, just mentioning :) ... --best, karl. -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-02 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
ail). It doesn't work. When using @chapter @"U the umlaut appears correctly on the page but not in the bookmarks. It doesn't make any difference whether @documentencoding is set to ISO-8859-1 or not. It just doesn't work right. Any other ideas? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-04 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 02.06.2016 at 20:14 Gavin Smith wrote: > On 2 June 2016 at 19:04, Gavin Smith wrote: >> On 1 June 2016 at 16:04, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >>> Hmm, this is really weird. When using >>> @documentencoding ISO-8859-1 >>> >>>

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-05 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
Gavin's patch only works with Latin-1 characters, doesn't it? This would be completely sufficient for my purposes because I only need this to work with Western European languages (mainly German, French, Spanish), so Latin 1 would be sufficient... -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-05 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 05.06.2016 at 14:20 Gavin Smith wrote: > On 5 June 2016 at 09:18, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> On 05.06.2016 at 00:13 Karl Berry wrote: >>> Does this require a newer texi2pdf version? >>> The texi2pdf script itself (or texi2dvi; texi2pdf is just a trivial >

Re: [help-texinfo] Umlaut strangeness

2016-06-07 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
dummies so commands such as @code, and characters > % such as \, aren't expanded when present in a section title. > \indexnofonts > -\turnoffactive > +%\turnoffactive > \makevalueexpandable > +\passthroughcharsfalse > \def\pdfdestname{#1}% > \txiescapepdf\

[help-texinfo] Upgraded texinfo.tex: links are no longer colored

2016-09-25 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
I do that? Here are the two versions of texinfo.tex for reference: http://www.softwarefailure.de/tmp/texinfo.tex.old (2012 version) http://www.softwarefailure.de/tmp/texinfo.tex.new (2016 version) Thanks! -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

[help-texinfo] Suppressing "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000)" warnings

2017-03-24 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
een the words is too wide but I can live with that so I'd like to turn off those underfull warnings in order to see the really important warnings but how to do that? Thanks! -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

[help-texinfo] Overfull vbox messes up my index

2018-02-02 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
n and runs all the way to the page bottom without respecting the page's bottom margin. How can I fix this please? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: [help-texinfo] Overfull vbox messes up my index

2018-02-05 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 05.02.2018 at 08:26 Gavin Smith wrote: > On 2 February 2018 at 15:08, Andreas Falkenhahn > wrote: >> I'm experiencing a strange issue with texi2pdf. I have a rather large texi >> file which is rendered into about 950 PDF pages including lots of index >> pages.

[help-texinfo] German hyphenation

2018-06-20 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
correct German hyphenation or will I have to live with this? Tks -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: [help-texinfo] German hyphenation

2018-06-20 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
On 20.06.2018 at 18:50 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:29:38 +0200 >> From: Andreas Falkenhahn >> I've noticed some strange hyphenation when using texi2pdf with German texts. >> For example, the German word "Dateinamens" is hyphenated

Is there a way to make @see support hyphenation?

2020-07-13 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
split the link in two parts, continuing on the next line? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: Is there a way to make @see support hyphenation?

2020-07-13 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
> However, this might be hard to do automatically. Yeah, of course I'm looking for an automatic solution because we're talking about hundreds of pages here and the layout can change all the time... -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: Is there a way to make @see support hyphenation?

2020-07-14 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
;s a good idea. I don't want to have non-code links to be formatted as @code, though, but since I'm exporting to Texinfo from a custom format I can simply first scan for "_" in the link and use @code only if there's an underscore in the link. This works nicely. Than

Is there a way to change the font size in @author on @titlepage?

2020-08-16 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
ar in a smaller font size? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: Is there a way to change the font size in @author on @titlepage?

2020-08-21 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
has been already used, duplicate ignored > which I haven't made the effort to understand. Thanks. Is there any way to set the font size to use for @subsubheading because here the font size used by @subsubheading seems to be identical to the font size used by @author... -- Best

Re: Is there a way to change the font size in @author on @titlepage?

2020-08-23 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
exinfo puts below @author? Ideally, I want it to look like in footer.png (see attachment). I can get right-aligned text by using @flushright but how can I put the right-aligned line "Translated by..." *below* the horizontal separator line? Is that possible somehow? -- Best regards, An

Is it possible to create named links?

2023-02-05 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
details. in the PDF. So it's not possible to just have "Click here" or any other custom text as the link text. It'll always appear as the whole "See Section" shebang in the PDF. Is it possible to embed custom-named links without that pre-defined "Se

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-05-02 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
y @xref by default. Thanks again for adding @link, it's really helpful! -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-05-03 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
fault to black because it is the text color so nobody will be able to identify links. The @link color should default to the same color that is used by @xref by default... -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-05-07 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
initely appear in black so everything fine here. -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-06-29 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
n A(@link{One})B A(@link{Introduction,,bash})B A(@link{Introduction,Bash,bash})B @example @link{One, One} Two @link{One, Three} @end example @bye On 04.05.2023 at 18:08 Gavin Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 10:52:58PM +0200, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> On 03.05.2023 at

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-07-08 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
committed a fix in commit 8a467e11c5. It is still possible that > the space will still appear if the @link command is nested inside some > other construct but we will have to see if that happens in practice. Tested it and everything seems fine now. Thanks! -- Best regards, Andreas Falken

Re: New @link command for plain links

2023-07-09 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn
le table of contents appears in dark red now because everything in the table of contents seems to be a link now. Is there any way to get the old behaviour back for the table of contents? On 02.07.2023 at 12:44 Gavin Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 09:17:18PM +0200, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote