bug-texinfo
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Spanish font failure in Table of Contents


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: Spanish font failure in Table of Contents
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:26:32 -0400

    El código fuente es vital

As I expected, when I run this through TeX the o-acute does not print,
since there is no character in the font at that position.

The TOC contains the ^^xy sequences that is how TeX represents arbitrary
characters.

Basically, 8-bit input does not work in the current texinfo.tex.
Clearly it's highly desirable that it should, but I have not had the
chance to work on it.  It's a large job, requiring us to use different
fonts among other things (probably EC is the way to go, which is
basically CM with tons of preaccented letters in the upper half).

The only workaround is to use composite accents such as @'o, which are
inferior for many reasons, but should work.  You'll also need to run TeX
with Spanish hyphenation enabled.

Sorry.



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]