[XeTeX] Polytonic greek and XeLaTeX

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.01.2008 um 02:59 schrieb Ross Moore:

> With xunicode all of the following should give the same result:
>       ä \"{a} \char"00E4
> similarly with
>       ă \u{a} \char"0103
> and
>       ǎ \v{a} \char"01CE .

Sorry, Ross, I planned to write that pdfTeX is just combining two (or  
more) glyphs while xunicode.sty translates the construct to the fully  
composed character, which cmap.sty can compensate in pdfTeX for some  
scripts or languages. And that xunicode.sty and cmap.sty can do this  
only for those constructs that make sense, that exist in Unicode,  
while in arbitrary constructs both will fail. I somehow abbreviated  
my eMail – it was a bit late for me!

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