2014-09-24 23:34 GMT+02:00 maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>: > On 2014-09-22 22:04, Axel E. Retif wrote: >> >> On 09/22/2014 08:42 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: >> >>> I guess these jokers haven't heard of Unicode. Are they stuck back in >>> the 1990s? >> >> >> Are you and Philip Taylor even aware that you're replying directly to >> an arXiv administrator? >> >> I think arXiv and Cornell University are doing a great service to the >> scientific community and public in general and deserve more respect. > > > For the record, I was on the other side of this issue in the early 2000s, > and was told I should move into the 21st century. The person who told me > that was right, and I was wrong. Having been converted, I feel the need to > proselytize; apologies, though, for coming across as brash. > > I'm a linguist, so I constantly deal with other scripts. Unicode is > essential for our work, and its use has been routine in linguistics and > computational linguistics publications and data archiving for over a decade. > All the language archiving sites I know about will accept *only* Unicode (or > at the very least discourage non-Unicode submissions). > A few years ago I was asked by editors of a linguistics journal to make a LaTeX template for them. They told me that many authors use Arabic and Chinese and therefore they decided to use XeLaTeX only. However, they wanted also an old-style LaTeX template for those authors who do not need such scripts and do not wish to install XeTeX and the document should be easily convertible from old-style LaTeX to XeLaTeX. And the authors are allowed to use free fonts only. It was easy to develop such a template.
> So no, I don't understand why an archiving service would not allow > Unicode-encoded papers, even if it does require xelatex. (For the record, I > think the font is a red herring, since afaik the font license issue comes up > regardless of whether you're using latex or xelatex.) > Even worse, if you need a non-latin script, you only have a Unicode OpenType font and are forced to use old-style LaTeX, you have to convert the font but most often such a conversion is explicitely prohibited by the font license. > Mike Maxwell > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex