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Re: Texinfo (multilingual) question

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From: Kai Grossjohann
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:00
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>>>>> Gerald Wildgruber writes:

  Gerald> [...] I've heard of i18n of Texinfo, but does this just mean
  Gerald> processing of latin1 encoded (accents) texts, or is it
  Gerald> possible to have several languages (and with them proper
  Gerald> hyphenation when printed) in one Texinfo document. Can i
  Gerald> simply use babel with the Texinfo macro packakge?

Hm.  AFAIK, makeinfo and M-x texinfo-format-buffer RET don't hyphenize
the file at all, so you won't have any problems with that.  For
printed output, TeX is being used.  For this, I think you can easily
use german.sty because that works for TeX as well as LaTeX.  Also,
latin1.sty which allows you to have Latin 1 characters in your .tex
files looks like it is so low-level that it should work with LaTeX as
well as plain TeX.

Don't know about other languages, tho.  Isn't there a \setlanguage
primitive in TeX 3?  You would have to go to a TeX group for more
information on that.

kai
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From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Texinfo (multilingual) question
Date: 1996/11/10
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