[tex-eplain] accents problem in pdf generated by eplain

[Gérald Tenenbaum]

Many thanks, Karl.
At present I have an input file that defines, for instance,
\catcode`\é=\active\defé{\'e}
So should I replace this by
\catcode`\é=\active\defé{\lm\eacute}
after having loaded \lm in some way?


Karl Berry a écrit le 22/01/2022 à 22:44 :
> What's necessary is for the ToUnicode in the final PDF to be correct.
> I believe it is possible to do that with the original CM fonts,
> because afaik ToUnicode can, in principle, say
> <glyph for acute> + <glyph for e>
> => U+00E9 (Unicode eacute). Mapping font character codes to Unicode
> characters is more or less its whole purpose.
>
> The pdftex, dvips, xetex, ..., routes all operate in different ways and
> can easily have different results. The viewer is yet another factor.
> However, as I said, I have no recipes for any of it. Sorry. It's not a
> simple problem.
>
> My only other idea (I haven't tried it): for the limited case of common
> European/French characters, perhaps using the Y&Y encoding (aka LY1 aka
> texnansi aka 8y), which is essentially a superset of Latin1, will
> "happen" to work for most characters since Unicode is also almost the
> same as Latin 1 in the 128-255 range.  Probably easiest to try would be
> the LM fonts, e.g., texnansi-lmr10.tfm.
>
> None of this has anything to do with Eplain ... --good luck, karl.
>

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