2011/11/14 Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>: > > I'm going to repeat myself, or maybe if I shout I'll be heard? > > We are not (at least I am not) suggesting that everyone must use the Unicode > non-breaking space character, or etc. What we *are* suggesting is that in > Xe(La)Tex, we be *allowed* to use those characters, and that they have their
You are allowed to use them, nothing prevents you. I use them even in normal 8bit LaTeX. As I wrote, I sometimes process data coming from databases or converted from MS Word via OpenOffice where these characters may appear. > Unicode-defined semantics, to the extent that makes sense in XeTeX. If > because of your editor you prefer to use a '~' in your XeTeX files, that's > fine, we won't stop you. > > If some day you decide to edit my XeLaTeX files, you're welcome to do so, > just beware of the U+00A0 NBSP characters...not to mention the Arabic block > characters (including the ones used for Urdu and Pashto), and the Bengali > block characters, and the Thaana block, and Latin supplement blocks, and > IPA, and maybe the Devanagari block characters, and... All of which will > show up as squares or something in your editor, if you don't have a suitable > font; and all of which--control characters or not--*could* be represented in > 8-bit or even 7-bit encodings, using macros or some such. The reason for > using XeTeX is so I don't *have* to use macros or some funky abbreviation to > represent them. > If I know the language and script, I have the font. I could edit Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali (all using Devanagari) and Urdu, maybe even Arabic and Persian but I would not try to edit Malayam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Panjabi, Gujarati although they display well in my computer. However, I would not like to think, why I have overful/underful boxes and opening hex editor to see what kind of space is written between words. > Summary: if XeTeX supports Unicode, then let it support Unicode. > -- > Mike Maxwell > maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
