On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:18:20AM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>[...]
> OK to generate automatically. But ?ae???æ? and ?oe?????, &c.?please
> don?t make these substitutions
I have already found (and answered) that "oe" can not be a ligature
since, even in french, the "oe" sequence appears in words that do not
want the substitution ("coefficient"), and "ae" is rare enough and not
even a regular rule (there are greek words [in french] that do not want
it; and even from latin, it is not regular).
>[...]
> At which point you?ve reinvented X?TeX.
I've given a look at it. I don't want to start a discussion about
Unicode, since, supplementary to the "characters" (alphabetical,
syllabics, ideographics; but no hieroglyphes or Linear B, so it's not
complete ;) there are formatting commands or rendering (the ligature fi
is not a character; but in the XeTeX FAQ it is said user has to insert
directly the Unicode for this codepoint since there is no ligature),
that I don't think should be there (only the historical ASCII controls
should be there; others should be undefined).
But for XeTeX and Plan9 there is a special point: XeTeX uses some C++.
As I have answered privately to someone, it is not an absolute
obstacle---the files are not very numerous so a C flavour could be
achieved.
But if people start throwing me XeTeX in the legs, I will start crying
for a C++ compiler on Plan9...
No, no: I don't make threats!
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