Now that CTAN no longer contains the translation files (following a
recent thread on this list,
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-06/msg00061.html>),
the texinfo bundle from CTAN is no longer sufficient to process the
following minimal Texinfo document
\input texinfo
@settitle Test of document language
@documentlanguage en
foo
@bye
texi2pdf will fail from trying to read the language file txi-en.tex:
./test.texi:3: Cannot read language file txi-en.tex.
@documentlanguagetrywithoutunderscore ...i-#1.tex}
@else @globaldefs = 1 @inp...
@\documentlanguage ...ithoutunderscore #1_@finish
@else @globaldefs = 1 @inp...
l.3 @documentlanguage en
?
./test.texi:3: Emergency stop.
This is a pity as reading txi-en.tex seems to be a no-op in this case:
it only replicates the English defaults from the main texinfo.tex.
However, declaring the document language is good practice, and it isn't
a no-op for `texi2any --html` where it is used to set the "lang" attribute.
Would it make sense for texinfo.tex to skip over @documentlanguage en
when no other language has been set before?
Thanks and best regards,
Sebastian Meyer
PS: This came up as a MiKTeX packaging issue
<https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/1651> because their "texinfo"
now only contains the three files from CTAN's "texinfo-latest" (whereas
the one from TeX Live does include txi-*.tex).
