> > > once I figure out the Right Thing to do vis-a-vis shifting in and
> > > out of math mode. Escaping every non-ASCII character into math mode
> > > won't work correctly,
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. What are you
> > using math mode for? ($~$ looks better in URLS and whatnot than \~ .
> > Is that what you're doing?)
>
> That it does, but I was thinking more in the context of a generic module
to
> support translating Unicode characters to LaTeX equivalents, and how to
> handle the characters which change labels within math modes, although I
> suppose there should just be one encoding that works both within and
outside
> math mode...
Side note on URLs: IIRC there is a url package for LaTeX, which could
be used to render L<http://....>; the typesetting is nice and tools
like PDFlatex can even make these hyperlinks active.
> > > and it gets even more involved when considering \verbatim sections.
> >
> > I would think this would be easier actually. Just put a verbatim
> > paragraph between \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} and it should be
> > typeset exactly as entered.
>
> Well, yeah, it is. The problem appears to be that (for example) Latin-1
> high-bit characters aren't rendered properly in the resultant pdf/dvi file
> within \verbatim sections. With any luck the link you proffered has some
> straightforward advice.
Yeah, that should be solvable with the right encoding package.
Cheers,
Marek
