encoding work-arounds (was Re: [pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?)

[William Adams]

(sorry for the dupe Michael---mis-sent to just you at first ;)

Michael Chapman said:
 >But ... I would say one point of fragility is the difficulty of 
handling
 >non-ASCII text. There are easy work arounds for common situations 
(but they
 >all mean I cannot write a Latex document from memory, I have to cut 
and paste
 >or use a book, which I find sad) but for multi-encodings of UTF-8 I 
find
 >things not that wonderful.

 >Think we risk 'losing it' if we don't catch up with 'current' encoding
 >standards ....

Well, there is Omega.... and dvipdfmx now supports it.

Another way to do this is to code XML (say using something like 
TBook) and handle things programmatically.

I agree though, a merging of Omega and pdftex would be ideal.

William
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