[OS X TeX] TeX i-Package updated (on Yale only)
Maarten Sneep
maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Sat Apr 3 05:01:36 EST 2004
On 3 apr 2004, at 11:04, Maarten Sneep wrote:
> On 3 apr 2004, at 10:07, Julien Salort wrote:
>
>> What is the replacement of ucs' options then ? (ie. mathletters,
>> autogenerated, etc.) Have they become useless or is there a way to
>> pass
>> them to inputenc ?
>
> I have no idea, I'm just quoting from the latest latex newsletter. I
> do not know how they started with their utf8 support, maybe ucs was
> used as a starting point. Just for fun I downloaded inputenc.dtx from
> CTAN. I'll try to latex it and see what they've done, it should be
> documented there.
It turns out the preliminary support for utf8 is in utf8ienc.dtx. It
seems they didn't base their work on the ucs package. I have no idea of
the implications of this change, but the utf8ienc.dtx file does give an
introduction into the problems that are likely to be encountered.
Maarten
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