Re: Latex and utf8
Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2006-03-22T08:25+0100 Frank Küster wrote:
>> Or XeTeX:
>> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=XeTeX
>> It only produces dvi currently, but it natively supports utf-8 with all
>> characters, and OpenType Font features. It's been developed on the Mac,
>> but the Linux port is well on the way (meaning: I've seen it running,
>> but there's probably no official release yet).
>
> I trust converting dvi to PDF is straight forward? Though I do like
> those little PDF features like hyperlinks et al.
With dvipdfmx, it should be possible to create pdf files *with*
hyperlinks. The only drawbacks ares that you can't include the graphics
files that pdfTeX would support, and of course that you can't use the
microtypographic features of pdfTeX.
> Does tetex3 use opentype?
No, AFAIK currently none of the programs in teTeX or TeXlive support
OpenType fonts.
> On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType the "How to install OpenType
> fonts with LaTeX" link is broken. :/
You can probably extract the internal Type1 font or TTF font structure,
loosing the special OpenType features, and use the extracted font.
> XeTeX will need to be a Debian package for me to use it. :)
That will take some time, I fear.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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