From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:43:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616184328.0A64BB827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:37:59 +0200." <20110616173759.GA5598@polynum.com>
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> Modifying TeX to accept utf as input (I mean the compiler/interpreter by
> itself; not macros), converting to rune and then using 16 bits � la math
> mode to switch inside a font family to the "correct" 256 vector is
> something that, for a first step, seems to me both reasonable and
> simple.
What about XeTeX? It is a merge of TeX with Unicode and
modern font tech. Works with OpenType Fonts. Included in TeX
Live among others. I can use XeTeX with TeXShop & TeXWorks. I
am just a user so don't know how hard it would be to port but
seems like it is widely used now.
See
http://scripts.sil.org/xetex
Some more examples @
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-16 12:17 tlaronde
2011-06-16 16:49 ` Russ Cox
2011-06-16 17:37 ` tlaronde
2011-06-16 18:43 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2011-06-16 19:20 ` tlaronde
2011-06-16 17:43 ` tlaronde
2011-06-17 14:18 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-06-17 15:37 ` tlaronde
2011-06-17 18:07 ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-06-17 18:37 ` tlaronde
2011-06-19 14:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-19 14:07 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-19 16:34 ` tlaronde
2011-06-19 18:01 ` tlaronde
2011-06-19 22:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-20 11:18 ` tlaronde
2011-06-20 21:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-21 10:56 ` tlaronde
2011-06-24 23:05 ` Mauricio CA
2011-06-25 6:50 ` tlaronde
2011-06-25 12:19 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-25 15:03 ` tlaronde
2011-06-25 15:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-25 16:33 ` tlaronde
2011-06-25 16:34 ` Mauricio CA
2011-06-25 17:11 ` tlaronde
2011-06-25 18:43 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-06-26 7:57 ` tlaronde
2011-06-27 1:01 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-06-27 11:48 ` tlaronde
2011-06-27 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-27 14:38 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2011-06-27 17:20 ` tlaronde
2011-06-27 17:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-27 18:01 ` tlaronde
2011-06-27 21:17 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-06-28 11:25 ` tlaronde
2011-06-27 23:45 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2011-06-27 23:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-28 11:19 ` tlaronde
2011-06-28 11:32 ` tlaronde
2011-06-28 12:16 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-29 23:43 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2011-06-30 13:02 ` tlaronde
2011-06-30 13:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-30 13:47 ` tlaronde
2011-06-30 14:51 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2011-06-30 15:22 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-06-30 16:25 ` tlaronde
2011-06-30 16:31 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-30 17:00 ` tlaronde
2011-06-30 17:12 ` tlaronde
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