> According to Gavin, Texinfo has no way to print text monospace text
> in bold.
Here's the thing: The CM family doesn't contain a font for monospace
bold. Since `texinfo.tex` essentially only uses this font family,
there is no support for it.
> [...] Doing
>
> \input{texinfo}
>
> @tex
> \textbf{ABC}DEF
> @end tex
>
> XXX
>
> @bye
>
> I get all of "ABCDEF" bold. I don't understand why.
This I can explain. Contrary to LaTeX, `\textbf` doesn't take an
argument in texinfo. It simply switches to a bold font, and you have
to limit its effect with a group:
{\textbf ABC}DEF
> Do you happen to have solutions for the whole TeX thing? Otherwise
> I think I'll give up on that and only implement HTML for now. I
> admire your TeX wizardry, but as to me personally, the *TeX suite
> just makes me tear my hair out...
:-)
To be serious: Is the use of bold typewriter mandatory? Is there a
solution that only uses italics and colours? Do we also need bold
italic typewriter?
If we really need that, I can set up a solution – please give me one
day. For XeTeX (and luatex), it's almost trivial. For pdfTeX,
however, it needs more efforts. I guess it makes sense for testing
purposes to have support for both pdfTeX and XeTeX.
Werner
PS: Since my patch to `@setcolor` is probably not going upstream, I
will also set up a solution without modifying `texinfo.tex`.
