Re: Adding support for ISO-8859-1 in printed manuals

[Karl Berry]

Hi Paulo,

Thanks for the latin1 patch.  It's one of the best such efforts I've
received to date, and I think it could actually be included with minimal
changes.(*)

As it turns out, another volunteer (Oleg Katsitadze, hi Oleg), has done
a tremendous amount of work at my request (fervent pleading is more like
it :) to extend Texinfo to more encodings and more fonts.  (To do a good
job, the two are inseparable, since TeX won't hyphenate words with
\accent-ed characters like \'e in OT1).

However, perhaps it would be good to include your support now, until
Oleg and I finish working out his more extensive implementation.  (Which
is in my court right now, unfortunately.)  Oleg, wdyt?

Thanks,
Karl

(*) I'd actually like the support to be integrated into texinfo.tex.
Although it seems an obvious candidate to put into a separate file, the
convenience of having a single texinfo.tex has been considerable, and,
after all, the definitions are relatively small and short.