Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 15 May 2008 18:33:40 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4FGXcxe030378 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:33:39 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4FGQxna028349 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 May 2008 18:27:00 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4FE61k6025894; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:50 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 5046 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:50 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4FGSoQh009799 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:50 +0200 Received: from mail.quinscape.de (mail.quinscape.de [212.29.44.217]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m4FGSY56001176 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:39 +0200 Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 16338 invoked from network); 15 May 2008 16:28:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 May 2008 16:28:32 -0000 Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B64A88EEBA; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:33 +0200 (CEST) References: <85BC623C-4952-4585-BC7E-4B3F75CA5A10@gmail.com> <1A8B3E0C-24D3-4D27-A649-395D2035FB34@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.0.17; VDF: 7.0.4.46; host: quinx) Message-ID: <86mymrzg3y.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:33 +0200 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Replacing inputenc for XeTeX/LuaTeX To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: (William F. Hammond's message of "Thu, 15 May 2008 12:19:41 -0400") Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 May 2008 16:33:41.0162 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F3658A0:01C8B6A9] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5207 William F Hammond writes: > Will Robertson writes: > >> I'm happy to maintain such a package that's intended to live in tex/ >> xelatex/inputenc.sty if you like; otherwise, it should probably be >> rolled into inputenc.sty proper. > > Although I don't understand the details, I think it would be best if a > maximal collection of "old" LaTeX files will sail seamlessly through > xelatex, and I suppose that would mean accommodation in the regular > inputenc. The maximal collection with maximal compatibility would just switch XeTeX to 8bit-transparency (aka latin-1) and use the normal inputenc on top of that. But that would give us bug and awkwardness and performance hit compatibility and 8bit-boundedness as well. I don't think that is something that many would be happy with. > I hope that texlive 2008 deadlines don't interfere with doing it > right. Probably will, but if we have good arguments, we can probably bargain for some headroom. -- David Kastrup