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I really like troff and how much lighter it is, I just wish it had proper Unicode support for obscure Asian scripts. I haven't tried latex's Unicode support, bu
by tnelsond4 6mo ago
I really like troff and how much lighter it is, I just wish it had proper Unicode support for obscure Asian scripts. I haven't tried latex's Unicode support, but I've used Sile and it requires some manual hacking.
- gucci-on-fleek 6mo ago> I haven't tried latex's Unicode support Unicode support is perfect out-of-the-box these days, in the sense of supporting arbitrary UTF-8 input and outputting the corresponding characters. Some of the "complex" scripts (Devanagari, Arabic, Thai, etc.) have a few issues, but all the common ones should work fine with the appropriate packages.
- tnelsond4 6mo agoYeah, I write in Khmer which is more obscure and more nonlinear than Thai. Most things struggle with it
- gucci-on-fleek 6mo agoXeLaTeX and LuaHBLaTeX are both HarfBuzz-based, so if HarfBuzz handles Khmer properly, then you'll likely be able to get it to work with LaTeX, but it will probably need a few tweaks.