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Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents)
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Nicolas Maufrais |
Subject: |
Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents) |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:52:25 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:56:03PM -0500, John Gabriele wrote:
> On 12/15/06, Nicolas Maufrais <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Translations of the manual I work on (Cinelerra manual) have begun.
> >
> >We noticed it's not possible to make the pdf manual, when the texinfo
> >file contains accents. The accented characters do not appear in the
> >output (even if they do appear in the pdf output).
>
> Hi Nicolas. I'm not sure I understand that paragraph. Are you able to
> generate a pdf, or does it fail leaving you with no pdf file?
Indeed, I should have read what I wrote. ;-)
The accents appear in the HTML output, not in the pdf.
However, the pdf is generated, with warnings in the log file.
> >Here's what's written in the log:
> >
> >Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
> >Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
> >Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
> >
> >{snip}
> >
> >I was really surprised to discover texinfo doesn't support accents
> >unless you edit the texinfo.tex file. :-/
>
> This sound odd. I've had to have seen many TeX-generated docs with
> accented characters in them. Are you generating the accented character
> using the Texinfo command (@'e), or are you typing it in as one
> character in your editor? What encoding are you using for your source
> text file?
The text file is ISO-8859-15. I don't use the texinfo commands, because
that makes the texfile almost unreadable. It's written in French, and
there're a ton of accents.
Nicolas.
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- [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Nicolas Maufrais, 2006/12/15
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), John Gabriele, 2006/12/15
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents),
Nicolas Maufrais <=
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), John Gabriele, 2006/12/15
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Nicolas Maufrais, 2006/12/15
- [help-texinfo] Re: Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Brooks Moses, 2006/12/15
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Karl Berry, 2006/12/16
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), tomas, 2006/12/16
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Nicolas Maufrais, 2006/12/17
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Karl Berry, 2006/12/17
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Nicolas Maufrais, 2006/12/19
- Re: [help-texinfo] Changing fonts (default one doesn't support accents), Karl Berry, 2006/12/19