[OS X TeX] A question about Metafont

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 6 oct. 07 à 23:48, André Bellaïche a écrit :

> Did you ever try to install by yourself a new Postscript font into  
> TeXLive or gwtex ? With the help of manuals by several people, and  
> the personal help of Bruno Voisin on this list, it takes two days  
> of work. And most TeX users are not able of such an achievement.

It seems even the big guys are getting tired of the font and encoding  
issues plaguing "traditional" TeX. From the XeTeX list earlier today:

> De : "Axel E. Retif"
> Date : 18 octobre 2007 12:16:33 HAEC
> À : Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms
> Objet : [XeTeX] Quote from TeXhax thread
>
> I can't help quoting none other than Sebastian Rahtz from this TeXhax
> thread:
>
> http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2007-October/thread.html#9150
>
> --------------
>
> From: Sebastian Rahtz
> Date: 15 October, 2007 07:03:29
> To: Chris Rowley
> Cc: texhax, tex-live, madduck,
> 446476, Ralf Stubner
> Subject: Re: [texhax] [tex-live] Bug#446476: Bug#446476: Bug#446476:
> natbib cannot	handle utf8
>
> Personally, I gave up on all this ucs.sty/inputenc stuff last year
> and switched to xelatex instead. Now it's native Unicode joy every
> time, instead of endless problems once you stray beyond the latin
> world....
>
> -- 
> Sebastian Rahtz
> ---------------
>
> I think Jonathan Kew and other knowledgeable people of this list
> should take a look at that thread, especially to Martin Schröder's
> qualms about input encodings.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Axel
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Bruno Voisin
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