On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 04:27:14PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > "PDFTEX=luatex texi2pdf" or "PDFTEX=xetex texi2pdf". > > But, as Gavin just replied about the txi-ru case, how does it know what > font to use? There's nothing in the engines that will automatically > switch to a font XYZ with Cyrillic support when it sees a Cyrillic input > character, in any encoding. (Nothing in our work in texinfo.tex along > those lines ever came to fruition, as far as I know.)
I see. The support files for Japanese (texinfo-ja.tex and txi-ja.tex) actually do considerable work to load fonts, so it is not just a simple matter of switching engine.
