On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:03 AM Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

"Vanilla" LaTeX systems tend to use `pdflatex` to process things, and don't
> understand unicode inputs without extra fiddling.  If you use XeTeX
> (`xelatex`), it assumes unicode by default and makes things simpler - in a
> lot of cases it can be a drop in replacement.  I think TeXLive supports
> either, pandoc can certainly use either.
>

Thanks, Terry, for these comments.  I didn't know any of this.

> It's really bad when you go from 27 μg/L nitrate (micro-grams per liter)
> in your drinking water to 27 g/L because LaTeX doesn't render the μ :-S
>

Yikes!  Death by (lack of) unicode.

Edward

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