Re: ligatures in html

[Chris Wright <cawright.99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thanks for the really good advice, folks

I've upgraded to a more modern workflow - XeTex at the moment

Cheers

Chris

On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 20:26:16 UTC+10, Joost wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22 2015, david.p...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:> wrote: 
> > Indeed, for me, Pandoc's default tex template outputs the unicode 
> > characters correctly, but this could be because my environment is set up 
> to 
> > use XeLaTeX. 
>
> Well, that's probably not the reason, unless you've symlinked the 
> command `pdflatex` to `xelatex`. Pandoc's default latex template uses 
> the inputenc package with the [utf8] option. This ensures that LaTeX 
> accepts utf8 encoded input files, whereby non-ASCII-characters are 
> translated into LaTeX commands that produce them. So `æ` in the input 
> file will be translated to `\ae`, which will then be replaced with the 
> glyph `æ` in the pdf output. 
>
> One reason to still use XeLaTeX (or LuaLaTeX) is that inputenc does not 
> support all Unicode characters, though. And It's easier to use system 
> fonts. 
>
> -- 
> Joost Kremers 
> Life has its moments 
>

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