Re: Upgrading to current makeinfo

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 31/08/2019 à 21:11, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> To have both `!' and `\!' (and similar `\foo' command and `foo'
> property entries) in the index of the info and PDF version of the NR
> it is necessary to tag corresponding entries with `@sortas'
> directives[*]
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5551/
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5552/
>
> `@sortas' was introduced in texinfo 6.1 (released in 2016); I would
> thus like to upgrade the minimum version of texinfo to version 6.1
> accordingly.  Note that we already use version 6.1 in gub.
>
> Objections?
>
>
>      Werner
>
>
> [*] Currently, HTML output is handled by an ancient version of
>      `texi2html' that doesn't understand `@sortas' at all; I'm going to
>      add a dummy macro replacement to fix that.  As a consequence, the
>      index of the HTML output will stay inferior to both the info and
>      PDF versions until we upgrade to a recent version of `texi2any'.
>      Unfortunately, this is quite a difficult task...

Furthermore, texi2html doesn't honor French typographic rules regarding 
ordinals: you can't use @sup{letter} like 1^er for 1st and I have to type

@ifnothtml
256@sup{e}, 512@sup{e} et 1024@sup{e}
@end ifnothtml
@ifhtml
256e, 512e et 1024e
@end ifhtml


Cheers,
--
Jean-Charles

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