[luatex] lua-inputenc

Elie Roux elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu
Mon Feb 16 19:05:03 CET 2009


Arthur Reutenauer a écrit :
> Actually, another question is how all that interacts with fontenc: in
> pdfLaTeX, if you're using inputenc, you should use fontenc also,
> otherwise you're just asking for trouble.  Hence, in LuaLaTeX +
> lua-inputenc, wouldn't it be possible to simply use the LICR internally,
> and let fontenc convert it to the font's encoding with the *enc.def
> files?
>
>   Of course, this would give very bad results with OpenType fonts, for
> example, but I think it's not unreasonable to require LaTeX users who
> want to use OpenType fonts with LuaTeX to encode all their documents in
> UTF-8, full stop.  lua-inputenc should, as I see it, care for backward
> compatibility first.
>   

I totally agree: users who want new features (like OTF) shoud do things 
in UTF-8.

Actually fontenc works fine with simple documents, and my solution for 
inputenc works fine too (with fontenc). I continue to test, but no 
problem so far...

Thank you!
-- 
Elie


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