Subject: RE: International support in Win98
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@celium.net)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 14:38:04 CST
Lukas wrote:
> 3) Something entirely different: I noticed that Abiword is at a
> loss when saving Unicode characters in LaTex format. Most
> characters above 8bit are simply dropped. Of course, that's not
> Abiword's fault but LaTex's - Unicode support is simply not
> available in classical LaTex. But are you aware that there is now
> an alternative: Omega? ( see
> http://omega-system.sourceforge.net ) Omega is a 16bit enhanced
> version of Tex which supports native Unicode input. Whenever a
> document contains non-8bit characters, you could just save the
> Latex files in UTF-8 and leave it to Omega to do all the rest.
> Unfortunately Omega is little known and there is precious little
> documentation for it. But it generally works with the same syntax
> as LaTex, so it shouldn't be a big step to adapt. (And documents
> containing only 8-bit could of course still be processed by
> classical LaTex too).
Do you mean Lambda, doesn't you?
I was aware, but I didn't have the time to make it work a few months ago.
Do you know if you can use the packages that are disponible for LaTeX in
Lambda?
Cheers,
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela cuenca@celium.net> > 4) A very minor i18n bug: The Windows installation program > assumes "C:\program files" to be the default installation path. > This path name is localized in Win9x (and customizable too). I > think the practice is to look up the value in the registry, under > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion, > "ProgramFilesDir", and then use that as a default. > > Happy Christmas to all, > > Lukas >
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