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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



  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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