- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:38:24 +0100
- To: e.bischoff@noos.fr
- CC: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
> I'm thinking in particular at internationalization. Ah yes tex does show its ascii bias at times. An awful lot of work over the years has been done to hide that and produce workable systems for a variety of languages, including Asian languages with large character sets and right to left languages however I'm not going to argue with you that if the tex installation that you acquire isn't set uo for your language "out of the box" then figuring out how to extend it can be a black art. Longer term if tex is to survive I am sure a native unicode version will be needed. As you may know there is an experimental system "omega" that is essentially a native unicode tex. We'll see what happens... > Also, I have noticed that the learning curve is easier with XSL-FO than with > LaTex for complete beginners can't comment on that. I thought people just grew up with latex, saying latex is complicated is like saying English is complicated, it's probably true but I don't really remember learning either.... > Of course, if you do mathematics in US English or even English English:-) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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