Re: pdfeTeX error when compiling lilypond.texi with accents in node names

[John Mandereau]

Le dimanche 24 juin 2007 à 13:22 -0500, Karl Berry a écrit :
> Additionnally, I have a related feature request: I'd like to be able to
>     use French and German simple and double quotes in Texinfo TeX output.
> 
> I guess we could define new commands.  What should the commands be named?
> @[lr]guillemet
> @[lr]guillemets
> @[lr]quotebase
> @[lr]quotedblbase
> 
> ?

IMHO "quotedblbase" is a bit more difficult to remember, so I prefer the
French word "guillemet":

command     UTF-8 char Unicode EC char code
@lguillemet       «    00AB    '023
@rguillemet       »    00BB    '024


There are German quotes too -- "g" stands for German, and I prefer the
short names:

@lgq or @lgquote ‚     201A    '015
@rgq or @rgquote ‘     2018    '140
@lgqq
  or @lgdblquote „     201E    '022
@rgqq
  or @rgdblquote “     201C    '020



> There are a lot of issues involved in supporting other fonts, even ones
> that are as close as EC and CM.  This is a long-term project Oleg has
> made good progress on; hopefully it'll come to fruition later this year.

I just thought it would make adding support for French and German quotes
easier, but as long as EC can be used only for some particular glyphs,
I'm happy enough :-)  AFAIK, using EC fonts and T1 font encoding would
allow hyphenation of words with accented characters, but it is just
luxury now.

Thanks for your attention,
John