Re: (La)TeX for a conlanger? Advice sought.

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Owing to the popularity of [La]TeX, I'm sure there are tools convert
truetypes to the TeX format.

On 11/15/05, Kit La Touche <kit@...> wrote:
> strictly speaking, i think LaTeX doesn't use truetype fonts, but its
> own CM metric, which comes with a LaTeX installation.  this is the T1
> encoding that one uses generally.  i, for conlanging, tend to use OT
> encoding, which requires some poking at to get working nicely, but it
> handles characters like edths and angmas nicely.
>
> i love LaTeX, but if you want fine-tuned control over the layout,
> it's probably not what you want.  if you want consistent and nice
> layout, and really good accented characters, it's for you.
>
> kit
>
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> writes:
> >>> (i) works a lot with truetype & unicode fonts,
> >>> (ii) is a typography fetishist,
> >
> > I'm a bit puzzled about your answer (i) here: I admit to be a bit
> > behind cutting edge Linux and LaTeX technology as my normal system is
> > some four years old, but is it the case that LaTeX can use Truetype
> > and/or Unicode fonts these days and that it reads the input in
> > e.g. UTF-8?
> >
> > **Henrik
>

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