Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Yes, ugly for two reasons. The first reason is the one that you
mention - XeTeX has to know how it interpret the convention. But the
second reason is worse. It has to disable everything that the file is
doing, only load the patterns and try to ignore everything else
without any side effect.
and in addition hope that thsi si still valid after an updat eof the
patterns (which may introduce new conflicting commands, or have
assumptions of a changed name without notifying those responsible for
embedding them ...) .. all this (and worse, like "quit loading if this
is not latex" features) has happened and that's what this project wants
to avoid
- generic conversion file from UTF-8 to T1 encoding (that could be
part of pattern loader, but lots of patterns need the same conversion)
probably present in most macro packages anyway
Hans
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