Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Bt can platex handle all non-japanese documents that latex can handle?
In other words, can we really use platex as a replacement for latex
when it is available?
platex can handle English -- 7bit code -- perfectly, so probably there
is no problem in using it for configuration purpose.
However, we need to be careful in using it for math preview. README2 in
the platex distribution says:
> Current pTeX may recognize a sequence of 8bit codes as a 16bit code.
> Therefore, it cannot handle a TeX source or a hyphen pattern which
> contains a sequence of 8bit codes such as French or Cyrillic.
>
> Threfore, pLaTeX2e has its own hyphen.cfg in the directory
> $TEXMF/tex/platex/base so that it doesn't load other hyphen patterns
> which may cause a problem.
But, conversion of the documents that contain 8bit codes to a 16bit code
such as EUC will probably raise a problem in itself and stops
(correct?). Should we allow lyx to use platex for preview purpose, once
the document succeeds in conversion because a problematic document fails
in conversion anyway?
Koji
