Re: [help-texinfo] Russian manuals

[Raoul]

Hi,


> I'm sorry, but there is no support for Cyrillic (or CJK or ...) in
> the current texinfo.tex.

Hmm, ok :-/

>  Although there is a long-term plan to
> support all this via LaTeX, that doesn't help you now.  I fear that
> right now there is no good option.

Ok. At least I know that I can stop trying.

> You could try converting to Docbook and see if the Docbook tools can
> process it into PDF (I don't know what they are).

I could try that. But I have no experience with Docbook and the
corresponding tools at all. And it would introduce another (probably
rather large) dependency beside latex in the build process. I do
not know if these tools are ususally found in standard installations
of Linux systems.

> Or convert into (Texinfo)XML and use texi2latex (an independent program,
> http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/), but unfortunately I suspect
> neither the 4.13 XML output nor that program are ready to do the job
> out of the box.

I found that program too but it seems to be unmaintained
for a long time. It is not really an option to require
this in our build process.

We could probably make the source plain latex and build pdf
and html from it. But then we loose the features of Texinfo
and consistency to the other manuals ...


After all, I think we should just say the the Russian manual
in .pdf form is not supported and we provide the html only.



Anyway, thanks for your help!


Raoul