Re: [Bug-gnupress] Re: Uploading content

[Simon Law]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:18:35PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 13:43, Richard Kreuter wrote:
> > "Lisa M. Opus Goldstein" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I figure we should just set them up here so we all have quick access
> > > to it.  After the work is done, we can send all the data back to the
> > > maintainers in one neat package.
> > 
> > Please forgive my confusion: have the manuals been posted to the
> > bug-gnupress project?  (I'm not too deft at using Savannah yet, but
> > don't see anything around the project page.)
> > 
> > If not, how can one help get things rolling?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Richard
> 
> Well, I guess you can start by getting the 3.3 branch of gcc and
> applying the patch posted[1] by me.  Then proof read the thing.
> 
> I honestly haven't found out if I can avoiding putting all of the gcc
> sources into cvs.
> 
> Another useful thing would be to get texinfo from cvs and help Simon
> with a @switchfont command.

        I am resigning myself to the fact that TeXinfo's font handling
system is pretty brain-damaged.

        In fact, it is non-trivial to switch fonts in TeXinfo; much
unlike LaTeX's switching system; because of the places where the switch
occurs.  So I am proposing the best solution I can think of:

1)  I will write a series of header files that can be included in each 
    GNU Press publication.  The standard way to invoke it should be right 
    after the first line:

\input texinfo
@input pallatino  @c This will load pallatino as the default Roman face.
@setfilename ...
@settitle ...
...
@bye

        This will actually make it work similar to LaTeX in its
font-handling, must is an inelegant kludge.  Most likely, we will want
to incorporate some generic switch mechanism that understands the
concept of Roman, Sans-serif, and Typewritter font faces.

Simon