[pdftex] 2 questions

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:21 PM 12/10/2001 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
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>    >  * the use of ToUnicode in pdftex has been slightly outlined here, has
>    >there been any actual work in this area? Is there any chance that it
>    >could be possible one day to use AE or ZE fonts and have \'e be
>    >registered as é in the PDF ?
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>    sure, it's supported in context for some time already -)
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>What exactly needs to be done here? \'e (if using T1, or LY1) encoding
>has always ended up in the pdf as é hasn't it? Is some other mapping
>needed for unicode support (I haven't looked at more recent pdf specs, I
>admit)

(1) you need to hook it into the font handling routines
(2) do some syncing with encoding switching and alike
(3) provide a couple of pdf resources

Hans

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