Re: [O] exporting α/β to latex/pdf

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Rustom,

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:21:18AM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Suvayu said:
> 
> The easiest solution is to use a modern TeX engine like XeTeX or LuaTeX
> > along with a font with the required glyphs.  I personally use XeTeX with
> > Linux libertine fonts.  You can find my setup here:
> >
> > <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/org-mode-config.el#L176>
> >
> 
> I am interested in switching over to xetex. I find however that things dont
> work very easily and googleing around I find that some fixes are needed. eg
> http://ledgersmb.org/faq/xelatex

I'm not sure what that FAQ is telling me.  It seems to me, it talks
about some Perl libraries that use LaTeX.  If that is the case, then I
can understand why that would be more involved.  After all it is
probably accessing more low-level features.

> 
> Do you also need to do these? Or is there something more generic/uptodate?

>From a users perspective (I just call `xelatex' from the terminal, no
fancy stuff), I found I need to do the same amount of searching as I did
with pdfLaTeX.  This is entirely driven by gaps in my LaTeX
understanding.

That said, there are cases where it has fewer features/bugs (I listed a
few in my earlier email).

Does that answer your question in anyway?  If you faced any specific
issues, I would be interested to know more.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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