Re: [AUCTeX] composed characters in LaTeX source code

[jfbu]

Le 08/11/2018 à 21:08, Stephen Berman a écrit :
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 18:29:42 +0100 Joost Kremers <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Stephen Berman wrote:
> > > Emacs can correctly display composed characters, and I want to use such
> > > characters in a LaTeX source file but when I run the latter through
> > > pdflatex, the PDF output display is wrong.
> >
> > If you have Unicode input files, usually the best thing to do is to
> > use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX to process your files. pdflatex groks a subset
> > of Unicode with the inputenc package, but it's only a subset. IME
> > XeLaTeX does a much better job, even though it's claimed to be
> > slower. (I never use pdflatex, so I can't really compare).
> >
> > If for some reason you need or want to use pdflatex, then I doubt
> > there's a solution.
>
> Thanks.  I ran it through XeLaTeX and that indeed output the composed
> character correctly aligned, though the vertical positioning looks worse
> to me than with pdflatex (see attached screenshots; text0.pdf is with
> pdflatex and text1.pdf with xelatex).

as pointed out in my reply to other branch of this thread perhaps try
with something like

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}


in preamble, for XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

(notice that on Mac OS X, the font must be a system font for XeTeX,
i.e. it will not find fonts from TeXLive if accessed by names like this,
except if some measures are taken -- like adding symlinks from ~/Library/Fonts
to the TeXLive repertories)

(no problem with LuaLaTeX)

J.-F.

> Also, to make this AUCTeX-related, after setting LaTeX-command to
> xelatex and typing C-c C-c in the test1.tex buffer, the compilation
> failed with the uninformative message "LaTeX: problems after [0] pages"
> and no log output.  But running xelatex from the shell worked fine.  Is
> there something else necessary to use XeLaTeX in AUCTeX?
>
> Steve Berman
>
>
>
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