Hi Javier, On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Javier Bezos <jbez...@gmail.com<mailto:jbez...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Apostolos, preface = \textPi \textrho\acctonos \textomicron\textlambda \textomicron\textgamma XeLaTeX is Unicode aware and can handle Unicode strings. Therefore, I fail to see why you are doing things this way. The LGR font encoding is an ancient hack that has no usage anymore. Of course, in Unicode engines the default captions section apply, not the captions.licr subsection. I think that it is absolutely correct that you build in continuing support for old encodings that may no longer be used with new documents. The existence of old documents using such encodings certainly warrants this — especially in the case of archives that process old (La)TeX sources to create PDFs on the fly. It is quite possible that in future these will be required to conform to modern standards, rather than just reproduce exactly what those sources did in past decades. Then there is the issue of old documents being aggregated with newer ones, for “Collected Works”-like publications. It is quite wrong to say that because we now have newer, better methods that those older methods should be discarded entirely. I’m facing exactly this problem, adapting pdfx.sty to be able to translate Metadata provided in old encodings: KOI8-R, LGR, OT6 etc. automatically into UTF-8, because the latter is required by XMP for requirements to satisfy PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/E standards. Javier Keep up the good work. Cheers, Ross Dr Ross Moore Mathematics Dept | Level 2, S2.638 AHH Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 8955 | F: +61 2 9850 8114<tel:%2B61%202%209850%209695> M:+61 407 288 255<tel:%2B61%20409%20125%20670> | E: ross.mo...@mq.edu.au<mailto:rick.min...@mq.edu.au> http://www.maths.mq.edu.au<http://mq.edu.au/> [cid:image001.png@01D030BE.D37A46F0]<http://mq.edu.au/> CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email.<http://mq.edu.au/> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University.<http://mq.edu.au/>
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