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Re: [help-texinfo] Non ascii to pdf.
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Non ascii to pdf. |
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Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:26:25 -0800 |
they'd collide when using a naïve 8 bit encoding
I know. But it's still not impossible to do. I've seen it done,
umpteen years ago.
So, it has been possible at some point to "typeset
UTF-8 with plain TeX"
Of course. It's always been *possible*, given the fonts. However, if
you look at texinfo.tex and its extremely naive approach to fonts, you
will see that adding support for cyrillic/cjk/greek/whatever would be,
as I said, a massive undertaking. For that matter, even just
typesetting US English with non-CM fonts is highly nontrivial to add. I
have other things to spend time on ...
Another volunteer came close to finishing a huge rewrite of the font
mechanism but then, sadly, moved on to other things. The world being
what it is, I will probably never get back to it.
Alas, Omega seems a bit out of fashion these days,
I removed Omega itself from TeX Live a few years ago. Aleph, its
somewhat bug-fixed updated descendant, remains (and will continue to
remain) for people who have existing Omega documents.
and I don't understand the mechanisms eTex (or XeT-TeX) use for font
mapping.
etex is essentially Knuth's 8-bit tex with a few new primitives,
irrelevant to the issue at hand.
xet-tex (actually xet--tex) was never widely available and is long since
doa.
These days, there are the luatex and xetex engines, which understand
utf-8 and opentype natively. For those who like such things.
Should I have given the impression to be impatient
Not at all, don't worry. If you had, I would have sent much shorter
replies :).
Best,
karl
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