Re: [help-texinfo] hyphenation with texinfo

[address@hidden]

 My system is based on sarge Debian. I installed the following packages:
ii texinfo        4.7-2.2        Documentation system for on-line information
ii tetex-base     2.0.2c-1       Basic library files of teTeX
ii tetex-bin      2.0.2-23       The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-doc      2.0.2c-1       The documentation component of the Debian 
tetex

I found four fmtutil.cnf files on my system:
alpha:~# ls -l `locate fmtutil.cnf`
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1146 Nov  3 08:45 /usr/share/man/man5/fmtutil.cnf.5.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3741 Dec 14 21:30 /usr/share/tetex-bin/fmtutil.cnf
<-------
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2887 Dec 14 22:07 /usr/share/tetex-bin/fmtutil.cnf.1.0.7
<------
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4060 Dec 14 21:47 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 
<-----
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4060 Dec 14 21:22 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf <----
alpha:~# 
Then I modified all fmtutils.cnf files. After I deleted my tex.fmt file located 
at
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/. And I ran tex story.

I insert

address@hidden address@hidden

at top of my document.texinfo file.

When I run texi2dvi document.texinto it reports some errors:
alpha:~/docs# texi2dvi document.texinfo
This is e-TeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
entering extended mode
(/root/docs/document.texinfo
/root/docs/document.texinfo:1: Undefined control sequence       <----------- 
?????
/root/docs/document.texinfo:1: Missing number, treated as zero  <----------- 
?????
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2004-04-07.08]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/dvips/epsf.tex)
localization, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-it.tex) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
[-1] [-2] [-3] [-4] (./preface.texinfo
....
....
...
Transcript written on document.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.  <------------ ?????
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: see document.log for errors. <---------- ?????

When I remove the first line in main .texinfo file
    address@hidden address@hidden
texi2dvi doesn't report any errors and it exits ok.

Using this steps, hyphenation doesn't work in Italian mode. It works using
default language :-(

I have noticed another translation trouble. "@documentlanguage it" automatically
translates many words in Italian (chapter, title, summary, ...). These words are
included
in txi-it.tex file but I can't see any reference to "Figure". Is it possibile to
add a new entry
in txi-it.tex for figure caption?

Let me know if you have any idea.

bye,
   tullio

>     plain.fmt and latex.fmt are binary files. Do I need to regenarate them?
>
> Your latex.fmt is ok, it defines Italian hyphenations (as \language14).
>
> But yes, it seems plain.fmt (really tex.fmt) must be regenerated, you
> probably only have English patterns loaded there.  Texinfo is loaded on
> top of plain TeX.
>
>     Do you have other suggestions to have a complete solution?
>
> I don't know what TeX system you have.  On mine (TeX Live 2004, which is
> based on teTeX), there's a file fmtutil.cnf which contains the
> following:
>
> # Change "tex.ini -> bplain.ini" and "- -> language.dat"
> # if you want babel support in tex. [...]
> tex           tex             -               tex.ini
>
> Accordingly, I changed that line to read:
> tex           tex             language.dat            bplain.ini
>
> Then I deleted tex.fmt (in texmf-var/web2c/), and ran  tex story .
> mktexfmt then regenerated tex.fmt with all the languages.
>
> Then, prepending the following line to your .texi file before the \input
> texinfo should, I think, switch to Italian:
>
> address@hidden address@hidden
> \input texinfo
> ...
>
> For posterity, here is one informative thread on the subject:
>
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/bad25f9c44626922
> 
> If this turns out to work, I can document all this and make texinfo.tex
> do the right thing automatically based on the @documentlanguage.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> karl
> 



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