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I really love Rust (believe it's the best systems programming language out there), so I've checked out tectonic a while ago. In many ways it represents precisel

by est31 6y ago

I really love Rust (believe it's the best systems programming language out there), so I've checked out tectonic a while ago. In many ways it represents precisely the direction I think Tex based typesetting should go Sadly I can't use it though as it doesn't support biber which would be needed for Unicode author names: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/35 https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/35

xcambar 6y ago
I'm no expert to anything typesetting systems, but I've noticed this on the homepage: > Thanks to the power of XeTeX, Tectonic can use modern OpenType fonts and is fully Unicode-enabled. ...which seems to oppose your statement and the linked issue. Can you explain, please?
- vnorilo 6y ago
  Biber is a reference manager, so orthogonal to XeTeX or general unicode support.
- est31 6y ago
  That refers to including Unicode in the document directly, which is great that it works, but for references, bibtex is part of the pipeline. You create a .bib file containing info about the references, and then do commands like \cite{} to cite to one of them. If you have Unicode in any of your references (author name, paper name, etc), you have a problem. The solution is to replace bibtex with biblatex and biber, but that requires biber support which currently doesn't exist :(. Example error that bibtex users can run into: https://superuser.com/questions/60432/unicode-characters-in-bibtex https://superuser.com/questions/60432/unicode-characters-in-...
  - xcambar 6y ago
    Cristal clear. Thanks!