Philipp Stephani wrote:
Beginners usually know how to visit web sites and how to create simple documents in Microsoft Word
OK, so let's teach them how to create Unicode TeX sources using MS Word :-) Just as an experiment, I tried it; the "Save as" was the hard part, since UTF-8 was not offered as a default, despite the fact that the document contained something that is pretty hard to represent in anything else : Hàn Thế Thành \end But I finally managed it, then tried to typeset it using XeTeX. Result : disaster (see attached). We'd better make sure that XeLshort advises users to select a Unicode-compatible font as default, which XeTeX clearly doesn't. Incidentally, it also demonstrates a strange bug/feature/w-h-y in the Win32 implementation of XeTeX; my source file was called HTT.tex, so the resulting PDF should have been called HTT.pdf, and that is what the log file claims was generated :
E:\TeX\Projects\Tests>xetex HTT This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.3 (Web2C 2010) entering extended mode (./HTT.tex [1] ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on HTT.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on HTT.log.
Yet it wasn't; it was called htt.pdf, simply because there was already an htt.pdf in the current directory.
E:\TeX\Projects\Tests>dir HTT.*
Volume in drive E is OneTouch4
Volume Serial Number is E79A-BF54
Directory of E:\TeX\Projects\Tests
29-Sep-2010 22:59 359 htt.log
29-Sep-2010 22:59 1,746 htt.pdf
29-Sep-2010 22:48 28 HTT.tex
3 File(s) 2,133 bytes
0 Dir(s) 63,364,755,456 bytes free
E:\TeX\Projects\Tests>
** Phil.
htt.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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