On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Guenter Milde <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-02-12, stefano franchi wrote:
>
> > And switching from LuaTeX to pdflatex is not
> > really an option, as the document and the bibliography have a mix of
> > English, French, and Italian, with lots of diacritics. I would have to
> > manually convert everything to Latex's codes, I guess. Or find a tool
> that
> > does it for me.
>
> As long as you do not include "esoteric" Unicode characters, also 8-bit
> tex engines (pdflatex/latex) should work as long as you set the right
> LaTeX input encoding.
>
> In LyX, this means Document>Settings>Language>Encoding: Unicode (utf8).
>
> In the LaTeX source, this translates to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
>
Yes, that is true and now I remember going down this road in the past.
I was mixing up TeX engines and bibtex engines.
I actually had to switch to Xe|LuaTex for a big project where the publisher
needed the final
pdf in the font used by their book series (and misremembered what caused
the transition).
This would obviously not be an issue for a converter to doc, where font
information are irrelevant,
although it may be an issue for the round-trip if the final output is pdf.
(I guess once could always switch engines
before final typesetting, but it adds a further step to the process).
> This should do the trick for Latin (including Latin-extended and many more
> diacritics), Greek (with a not too old TeX distribution) and Cyrillic
> script.
>
> BibTeX has some problems with Unicode,
To put it lightly...
but BibLaTeX should work with
> 8-bit tex engines, too.
>
>
Tes Biblatex works fine pdfLatex (I assume that's what you were referring
to with "8-bit tex engines").
Biblatex works also with bibtex8, but biber is so much better, that I'd
rather use it if possible. Among many other things, biber allows users to
mix and match different reference formats, and that is going to be a big
plus with Humanities users (where Endnote is prevalent and usually given
away by all major US universities, with free training on top of it).
As I am working on LaTeX Unicode support, I would be interested in
> problem reports.
>
>
Will keep that in mind.
Cheers,
Stefano
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