[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Philipp Stephani]

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> Von: Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn at web.de>
> An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:46:00 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort
> 
> 
> Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> 
> > 
> > Am  26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
> > 
> >> I have to  disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available 
>on Windows as  well. (Maybe not used that often.)
> > 
> > It's actually GNU Emacs and  XEmacs. There are also specialised variants, 
>based on GNU Emacs, like NTEmacs,  Carbon Emacs, "NS or Cocoa Emacs", "AppKit 
>Emacs", Emacs.app,...
> 
> Not "One  Emacs to rule them all!"?

It's not that bad. Carbon Emacs, Cocoa Emacs and Emacs.app (probably the others 
as well) are obsolete since GNU Emacs started to provide native Mac support. 
Aquamacs is pretty popular, though (like mvim).

> 
> > No, it's more than that. Compose o / will  produce ø, compose L / will 
>produce Ł, compose Y = gives ¥, compose o c will  give ©, and many, many more 
>combinations! -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose-Taste
> 
> 
> This isn't good  news:
> <quote>
> The compose key is known as "Multi_key" in the X  Window System. In XFree86 and 
>X.Org Server, many keyboard layouts have a variant  that maps Multi_key to some 
>key, usually (on PC keyboards) to either of the  Windows keys (most often the 
>Menu key, since "Start" is already used to open the  start menu), or sometimes 
>Shift + AltGr[1] or Shift + Right-Ctrl. It can also be  specified in XkbOptions 
>(for example, "compose:rwin"). Multi_key can also be  assigned with the 
>xmodmap(1) utility
> </quote>
> 
> In  short:
> Everyone is doing it  differently.

And many Linux users aren't aware of the Compse key; I think it is not mapped to 
any of the special keys in default Ubuntu installations. Again, all this 
shouldn't be explained in lshort.pdf unless you are planning to write dozens of 
pages about Unicode input methods.