>>>>> "Stacia" == Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stacia> Hi, I addressed this in another mail but no one seemed to
Stacia> answer and I can't really find any posts about how exactly to
Stacia> use this great new feature in 1.5.0. I'd like to use it for my
Stacia> Sanskrit assignment if I can to test it out. I've tried it
Stacia> with both Sanskrit text and Japanese, and both of them said
Stacia> this once I changed the encoding to UTF8:
Stacia> Package inputenc Error: unicode char \u8: (character) not set
Stacia> up for use with LaTeX
Hello Stacia,
The problem is that utf8 output only works for latin and cyrillic
character set at LaTeX level. These are also the encodings that LyX is
able to handle currently as 8bit characters.
This means that support for non-european scripts still needs to be done.
Stacia> Then I tried putting \usepackage{ucs} in the preamble as I saw
Stacia> something about it in an old LyX post. Now it gives a
Stacia> different error message, but pretty much the same thing -
Stacia> Package ucs error: Unknown Unicode character 12399 = U+306F
Stacia> (for example with Japanese hiragana HA) Then it gives this in
Stacia> the info:
Interesting. I did not know this ucs.sty package. From what I read
here
http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/
I see that the author provides a ucs.sty package, and a utf8x.def
encoding definition. This seems to suggest that, if you use ucs.sty,
you should also use utf8x as encoding.
This requires more experimentation, of course.
Stacia> HIRAGANA LETTER HA Character available with following options:
Stacia> cjkjis. Enter I!<RET> to define the glyph.
Stacia> When I do put cjkjis in the options, it doesn't help, it just
Stacia> has a bunch of "undefined control sequence" errors.
Stacia> Similar thing for Sanskrit - it whines about putting combine
Stacia> into the options, but when I do, it just gives me a bunch of
Stacia> "undefined control sequence" stuff.
The documentation at the page above seems to say that you will need to
load the package that loads the macros. What ucs.sty package does is
to map unicode characters to latex entities. Then the package that
defines these entities is required.
Stacia> I know that 1.5.0 is in its alpha stages but I hope that the
Stacia> final version makes this stuff a little more transparent for
Stacia> the user - I wouldn't want to have to hack around with the
Stacia> preamble every time I play with a new script.
The fact is, nobody around here has deep understanding of non-latin
scripts. Therefore, we need some help to understand what output should
be generated for each type of script (and we need time/manpower to
implement it, too).
JMarc
