Re: ASCII input - non ASCII output

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On 11/08/2017 11:34 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I'm still not arguing that this is the most brilliant idea, but I can
> totally imagine a Serbian professor wanting to "auto-generate" a
> Cyrillic version of his book on top of the Latin edition with
> close-to-zero extra effort.

Ok, I can see that this may be a convenient way of producing different 
output from the same source; I wasn't aware of this (and I was somewhat 
provocative about Latex, of course :-) From a conceptional point of 
view, it still feels a bit hackish to do these things on the font level, 
because they are not/should not be tied to specific fonts - you'd have 
to rewrite your features or goodies or whatever they are called now for 
every font you want to use (and you may run into a number of funny 
inconsistencies in character names or even unicode slots).

Thomas
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