Re: latex in texinfo

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi Pat,

>     There are some LaTeX constructs, especially in maths but not only
>     which are very handy. I know that texinfo is plain TeX, however is
>     there a trick allowing the use of LaTeX constructs within @iftex ?

as Karl explained, this is not possible.
LaTeX is a big colossus, huge pile of macros over plainTeX, so you cannot
just input it and have it within texinfo.

But one usually can use the individual macros if you really need them.
In particular, the best of math macros came from amstex, so you can use
the amstex version instead.

It's difficult to tell generally, but if you could send me an example of
several of the macros you need to use, I can show you how it's done.

If we are lucky, we can even prepare some ``packages'' which could be
optionally included into the texinfo source.  But let's start with small
solutions to small problems first, give me a few small examples of what
you miss most.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan