Hi,
just saw "require vignettes to declare their encoding (trunk@57560)". Having
played with non-ascii vignettes (well, a lot of Chinese...) on-and-off for
almost two weeks, I noticed it was a bit odd that a *commented*
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} had any effort at all on R's Sweave behavior -
while it is understandable (probably no check is made whether a "%" is before
\usepackage), it is probably wrong.
Besides commented statements having an effect, I found parsing \usepackage for
encoding a bit disturbing - because at one point I was considering adding
non-ascii's to one of the \usepackage options (hyperref can takes non-ascii for
options), and it is possible, or may be even necessary, for \usepackage's to be
in a particular order. There is also another drawback: if a latex document is
multi-language, it is quite customary to have different encoding in different
parts - one reason is to switch fonts and the availability of glyphs.
FWIW, I noticed it because I was adding/removing \usepackage{}'s and switching
between CJK and XeTeX a fair bit to see which gives me better results. They
have different font selection mechanisms and different compatible/conflicted
TeX packages; CJK on TexLive uses postscript Type 1 fonts while XeTeX uses
Truetype/Opentype - the typeface is the same (both using a Arphic derivative)
but the visual result is different.
HTH,
Hin-Tak
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
