Hello,
I have been studying the possibles ways to convert utf-8 to latex
encoding
using another encoding as base.
This is what came until now into my net:
- recode, it seems limited since implies a convertion to latin-1 before
converting to latex. François Pinard said in several places in the net that
he is working on an improvement for recode and he has some code to deal with
the convertion. I sent him a private mail asking for details.
- http://getfo.org/texml/ has a database of more than 2500 entries
converting
unicode to tex in python
- plasTeX is a LaTeX document processing framework written entirely in
Python. It has a database with more 1100 entries.
http://plastex.sourceforge.net/
If I write a converter from latex to lyx it will be based on this and
lyxl2yx, that is my plan.
The problems that we have now with unicode is that utf-8 from inputenc
does
not support all unicode, and the alternatives imply to search for the
availability of different packages to output the different chars.
Think about euro where there are several packages that allow to export
it but
are not present in every latex distribution.
I will give more details on this during the following week.
--
José Abílio
