On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:43:38PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 11 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Um, no need to be rude. > > Well, you started with "throw TeX into the bin!" (cum grano salis) > The only possible answer to that is mine. Or shutting up and ignoring > that kind of rants from your side. Please read what I said carefully, rather than imagined slights. I did not at any point state that TeX should be thrown in the bin; that was with regard to "broken terminal emulators, editors and tools". I fully believe we should remove obsolete tools which have superior replacements. I did not include TeX in that category. > > > You have apparently no idea between input and font encoding. > > > > I only mentioned UTF-8 with regard to input, so you are assuming > > too much. > > You mentioned *fontconfig* which is font encoding, and has nothing > whatsoever to do with inputenc. I don't assume too much. No, I mentioned fontconfig because XeTeX allows use of system fonts via fontconfig. That was completely separate from UTF-8 input. > > > > sorts out the awful font support, so you can use standard > > > > freetype-registered fonts, again without the pain. Result: a > > > > document you can actually read in the editor! > > > > > > Argg, PLEASE STOP THAT RUBBISH!!!! > > > > What you are calling "rubbish" is not in any way false. It's given > > It *IS* wrong. > You are stating that "using freetype-registered fonts makes a document > readable by the editor". Sorry this is rediculous. > - different fonts might register themselves under different names > to fontconfig > - fonts might not be available her or there and migh tnot be embedded > in the pdf [...] > I repeat: RUBBISH. I didn't state any of those things. Please calm down, and please read what I actually wrote, rather than what you thought I wrote. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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