[OS X TeX] accents +

[Ross Moore]

> 
> Le jeudi 18 avril 2002, à 09:58 AM, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
> 
> > functionality though implemented differently. All that, anyway, isn't 
> > necessary in LaTeX 2e, where you just type
> >
> > \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
> >
> > (possibly accompanied by \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}) to get the same 
> > result.
> >
> > The latter solution, I think, is also the only one which stills works 
> > should the file be sent to other platforms (provided the applemac above 
> > is replaced by the proper name, latin1 for example on UNIX machines).
> >
> 
> Not exactly
> 
> if you send a mac tex file to another platform, either with 8bitsdefs, 
> option_key or inputenc, it will compile fine, but you will not be able 
> to edit correctly the file except if the text editor is mac friendly 
> (accented chars will be wrong).
> 
> If you change the option in inputenc (applemac -> latin1 for example) 
> and send the file to the other platform, you will not be able to compile 
> the file nor edit it correctly unless you have changed the encoding and 
> probably the line endings too.


Hi,

There's another problem too, with that file that Bruno sent.
It came encoded as UTF8, with many 2-octet combinations starting with
the A-tilde character.

So if you use it on a non-UTF8-aware system, these will be read as
two 8-bit characters, instead of as a single character.
This will surely kill many of those \def commands.
I'd be extremely surprised if it compiles at all in TeX, on systems
other than a Mac with OS X.


There's a lesson in there somewhere; but I'm not sure exactly 
what it is.  :-)


Cheers,

	Ross

 
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