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On 6/28/06, Peter Münster wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
With iso-latin I could do "\defineactivecharacter X {special meaning}" but with utf-encoding, this does not work. And I would like to switch to utf...
You can do that with XeTeX (see some comments on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX; it might be that some macros should be extended to support the same command in ConTeXt to work properly - I didn't test it yet).
Yes, perhaps XeTeX is an alternative for pdfTeX. Does it support all the pdf-interaction features
Partly
hz and hanging of pdfTeX
As far as I know not (yet).
The page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XeTeX#Issues is from 2004, so perhaps the issues are gone away in the meantime?
I didn't dare to touch them without someone approving the change since I'm not sure what exactly each one means: Font metrics - I guess it was fixed recently Grid typesetting - never tried Paper size - I guess it was fixed recently Object reuse - I have problems including figures at all anyway (but I'm talking about Linux & Windows ports) Bookmarks - problems still there PDF Literals - most probably still a problem Occasionally Explodes - it's written that it was fixed, so it may be removed I guess Hoefler Italic is too fancy - no idea how to test Mojca