Re: [help-texinfo] trying to make a unicode math char appear in all formats

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Karl Berry wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> 1) With the latest texinfo.tex (from ftp.gnu.org et al.), using the 
> literal 227A character should work with TeX.  Processing with pdftex is 
> not a problem; UTF-8 input is parsed and characters mapped to the 
> standard TeX commands/fonts.  (Unicode outside of Computer Modern does 
> not work, but that's not the problem here.)

> 2) As of the latest Texinfo release (6.0), there's also @U{227A} which
> should behave identically, if you don't want binary in the source,
> although I guess that's not an issue in your case.

That will be useful as/when it's widely available. Thanks.

> 3) It should not be a problem to make @math be a no-op inside @math.
> That's surely desirable anyway.  Gavin or I can hack that into
> texinfo.tex when we have a chance.

That'd be really useful too. Being able to define the macro to use 
@math{...} inside for the \prec, while still being able to do @math{a 
@precb b} would be nice!

> 4) pinfo is still maintained by someone?  I thought it was abandoned a
> decade or so ago.  (Just curious.)

I don't know, but Fedora ship it and it works fine. I've always gotten on 
better with pinfo's lynx-like navigation over the stock 'info' viewer (not 
knocking 'info' ;) - just UI-network-effects I guess).

Thank you very much Karl and Gavin for your help on this. Much 
appreciated!

regards,
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