Re: Snippet 706: Generating custom flags

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>> To use LuaTeX, I've tried following command.
>>
>> $ PDFTEX=luatex PDFLATEX=lualatex make -j 16 CPU_COUNT=16 LANGS='' doc
>>
>> Then, it shows the following error.
>>
>> ```
>> ./18/lily-10433670.texidoc:3: Undefined control sequence.
>> l.3 ...on, which assigns the symbols *, †, ‡, §
>>                                                    and ¶ to
>> ```
>>
>> If I understand correctly,
>> it seems that LuaTeX with texinfo.tex can not handle the following letters.
>> § U+00A7 SECTION SIGN
>> ¶ U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
>
> This is a bug (most probably in luatex) which I've meanwhile reported
> to the texinfo team.  Maybe they can fix it easily with a modification
> of `texinfo.tex' – a long-term fix in luatex doesn't help us right
> now.
>
> Until then, we might replace `§' and `¶' (the latter character also
> fails with luatex), with the commands address@hidden' and address@hidden', 
> respectively.
> Patch appended.

Any words on XeTeX?  I consider it likely that texinfo.tex is not
prepared to deal with any non-8bit-engine.  If that's the case, XeTeX
would likely be similarly affected.

-- 
David Kastrup