Re: ANN: Pygments support for LilyPond

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 26/11/2021 à 07:09, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> > According to Gavin, Texinfo has no way to print text monospace text
> > in bold.
> Here's the thing: The CM family doesn't contain a font for monospace
> bold.  Since `texinfo.tex` essentially only uses this font family,
> there is no support for it.


Ah! OK, of course. Given your help offer below,
I suppose you have another font in mind. What
would that be?



> > [...] Doing
> >
> > \input{texinfo}
> >
> > @tex
> > \textbf{ABC}DEF
> > @end tex
> >
> > XXX
> >
> > @bye
> >
> > I get all of "ABCDEF" bold. I don't understand why.
> This I can explain.  Contrary to LaTeX, `\textbf` doesn't take an
> argument in texinfo.  It simply switches to a bold font, and you have
> to limit its effect with a group:
>
>    {\textbf ABC}DEF
>
> > Do you happen to have solutions for the whole TeX thing?  Otherwise
> > I think I'll give up on that and only implement HTML for now.  I
> > admire your TeX wizardry, but as to me personally, the *TeX suite
> > just makes me tear my hair out...
> :-)
>
> To be serious: Is the use of bold typewriter mandatory?  Is there a
> solution that only uses italics and colours?  Do we also need bold
> italic typewriter?


Well, the style uses bold for keywords like \score.
It's taken long to stabilize (not that I consider it
good, my judgement is simply not brilliant with colors)
so I'm not very keen on changing it again.



> If we really need that, I can set up a solution – please give me one
> day.  For XeTeX (and luatex), it's almost trivial.  For pdfTeX,
> however, it needs more efforts.  I guess it makes sense for testing
> purposes to have support for both pdfTeX and XeTeX.


Would be great. Thanks for your help.

Jean


>      Werner
>
>
> PS: Since my patch to `@setcolor` is probably not going upstream, I
>      will also set up a solution without modifying `texinfo.tex`.