Am 26.09.2010 20:11, schrieb Khaled Hosny:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:26:47PM +0200, Marco wrote:
Axel Kielhorn<[email protected]> writes:
Hello!
Some weeks ago I suggested getting information about XeTeX into lshort.
Well, here is the first draft.
In order to process it, you will need the lshort-4.31 source distributed with
TeXLive 2010
(or available from a CTAN mirror of your choice).
I want to limit this to the essential steps to get a document processed by
XeLaTeX.
I am open for suggestions and corrections (Note that I am not a native speaker.)
My plan is to submit this to Tobias later this year.
Axel
> From the text:
Some editors support digraphs, two letters that are combined into on
character. (In \wi{Vim} \texttt{ctrl-k o:} will be transformed into an
\"o, \texttt{ctrl-k JA} will created the mirrored R used by a russian
toy store chain.)\marginpar{How do you do this in emacs?}
Emacs has a whole set of various "Input methods", including a TeX method
that mimics the traditional TeX syntax for letters with accents and
diacritics. Sure you want to enter this topic? ;-)
Exactly, I don't see the point of discussing input methods in such a
short document; if I want to enter Unicode text I surely know a way to
do so or I can look for it in my editor/OS documentation.
Regards,
Khaled
Agreed. But one should at least give a reference link to information
about how to input Unicode in Windoof, OS X and Linux respectively.
There is no advantage in telling the people in lshort: "There is also
XeLaTeX, which lets you input everything in unicode and use any OpenType
or TrueType font on your system.", if you don't tell them how to do this
or at least where to find information about it. These people will simply
say: "What the heck is Unicode again? I simply press the keys on my
keyboard."
The "usual" Windows user has no to hardly any knowledge of input methods
other than what he is used to. Consequently he won't see any advantage
of _being allowed to_ enter any unicode character, if he isn't _able to_.
ciao
Toscho
PS: That said, I recall a anecdote, when an absolute Windoof and MS
Office user had to use my Laptop running Ubuntu and Open Office for live
beamer protocol. He first wondered, why he couldn't enter an e-acute by
pressing the acute-key and then the e-key. Later he wondered, why
couldn't enter all uppercase words by pressing Caps-Lock. And lastly he
wondered, why some strange symbol appeared, when he tried Caps-Lock again.
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