Re: @math{-} does not produce a minus sign in Info

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 03:12:17AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > It seems like the opposite would be the case that people will be unable
> > to find the minus sign when searching the document because they are
> > unable to type it in on their keyboards.
> 
> Well, that's a potential issue with all non-ASCII characters. This
> is not specific to the true minus sign. The solution is to make the
> Info reader handle such cases:

For that issue, in the release to come, there is a new customization
variable for texi2any, ASCII_PUNCTUATION, that uses ASCII only for
punctuation and similar (I haven't checked what it does for @minus, but
I guess it falls in that category).

>   * Make an ASCII character also match similar non-ASCII ones. This
>     solution is implemented in Firefox, for instance (and it can be
>     disabled to get exact matches).
>   * Alternatively, transcode everything to ASCII. This can already
>     be done by running info with LC_CTYPE=C.

I do not think that it is a good idea to go further in that direction,
to me this should stay a trick to get something viewable, not a way to
obtain a specifc output.

-- 
Pat