There is also the possibility of intelligent input methods, e.g. IBus,
which has Unicode and LaTeX input methods (besides a lot of input
methods for non-european scripts).
I prefer reading text as text and markup as commands (It's also easier
for non-texies to read it.), so text should be true unicode. (Although I
admit, its faster to type "`bla"' than with unicode double quotes.)
bye Toscho
Am 13.09.2010 18:37, schrieb Khaled Hosny:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:46:50PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
Michiel Kamermans wrote:
When switching from LaTeX to XeLaTeX, the first thing to realise is that
in XeLaTeX, you write your text in unicode, relying on the unicode way
of representing characters and character sequences. As such, the best
choice is to not "access glyphs" but to just put them directly in your
document: just use €, ſ, etc.
Much as I sympathise with, and understand, this Unicode-oriented
approach, it seems to me that in real life, and in the absence
of a universal keyboard which can conveniently and easily be used
to enter the myriad human languages that Unicode contains, the
"traditional" TeX way of entering diacritics (and characters
beyond those found on an English keyboard) is actually by
far the most useful and usable. If XeTeX does not currently have
a macro set which allows all such characters to be conveniently
entered mnemonically (and \char "0123 doesn't count as mnemonic !),
then I do think that there is a clear case for its creation.
As one who never had a keyboard with a Euro sign or accented characters,
I totally agree. I see TeX "shorthands" as a sort of input method, as
long as it gets translated into proper Unicode some where before actual
rendering is done, I see no harm in using it. Of course if one uses such
characters extensively, direct Unicode input is a better choice (and one
then should have proper keyboard layout).
That being said, I think xunicode already does this.
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