Add support for Cyrillic in texinfo.

Add support for Cyrillic in texinfo.

[lemzwerg, 2012-08-13 19:17:28]

It would be nice if a Russian speaking person could fix the Cyrillic index
entries.  However, since we don't have Cyrillic characters in the index, this is
not an urgent issue (and maybe we never need this).

[dak, 2012-08-13 19:28:30]

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/cyrillic.itexi
File Documentation/cyrillic.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/cyrillic.itexi#new...
Documentation/cyrillic.itexi:14: \gdef\cyrfont{%
The lack of kerning seems quite unnecessary.  One can check in an expandible way
for the current font to be as desired.  LaTeX's inputenc does that kind of
font-switch-on-demand as well IIRC.

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi
File Documentation/macros.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi#newco...
Documentation/macros.itexi:14: @include cyrillic.itexi
Why does it make sense to include cyrillic.itexi unconditionally rather than in
those documents actually needing it?

[lemzwerg, 2012-08-13 19:37:25]

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/cyrillic.itexi
File Documentation/cyrillic.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/cyrillic.itexi#new...
Documentation/cyrillic.itexi:14: \gdef\cyrfont{%
I fully agree.  However, I'm simply mimicking the EC support in texinfo, and I'm
not going to rewrite font support (which is something urgently needed, BTW).

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi
File Documentation/macros.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi#newco...
Documentation/macros.itexi:14: @include cyrillic.itexi
It's the simplest solution since the Cyrillic strings are in .ly snippets.

[dak, 2012-08-13 19:50:01]

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi
File Documentation/macros.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6459081/diff/1/Documentation/macros.itexi#newco...
Documentation/macros.itexi:14: @include cyrillic.itexi
On 2012/08/13 19:37:26, lemzwerg wrote:
> It's the simplest solution since the Cyrillic strings are in .ly snippets.

Can you identify some relevant source and result files?

[lemzwerg, 2012-08-13 20:27:30]

Notation, section `Kievan contexts', or `snippets/utf-8.ly'.

[aleksandr.andreev, 2012-08-13 20:33:55]

On 2012/08/13 19:17:28, lemzwerg wrote:
> It would be nice if a Russian speaking person could fix the Cyrillic index
> entries.  However, since we don't have Cyrillic characters in the index, this
is
> not an urgent issue (and maybe we never need this).

Could you explain what you mean by "fix the Cyrillic index"? Perhaps I can help
with this.

[lemzwerg, 2012-08-13 22:08:37]

For example, `Cyrillic letter V' currently maps to the `ZZZZV', and `Cyrillic
letter G' maps to `ZZZZG'.  [All Cyrillic characters start with prefix `ZZZZ' so
that they get sorted after all Latin letters].  But this is certainly not the
correct collation order for Russian!  AFAIK, `Cyrillic letter V' gets sorted
*before* `Cyrillic letter G', thus its mapping should be fixed.  Etc., etc.

[lemzwerg, 2012-09-18 05:41:51]

Uh, oh, please ignore the new stuff.