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Re:Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online by xorcist on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:38AM (#26501305)
> lack of proper Unicode support; lack of support of modern font formats

Is that really true? I had no trouble writing UTF8 documents using regular TrueType-fonts in LaTeX almost two decades ago and with no problems with output quality.

The only thing was you couldn't go through the dvi backend so any tools which manipulated dvi was not possible to use. But I believe all this is default now.

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Re:Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online by dkna on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:04PM (#26505569)
> Is that really true?

Oh yes. For instance, LuaTeX doesn't print combining diacritics correctly unless you painstakingly swap the underlying codepoints around in some unspecified order (to be determined through trial and error) that doesn't match _any_ of the Unicode normalization forms.

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Re:Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online by ubavic on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:32PM (#26505888)
I would be interested in how you did that? I had a lot of problems with Cyrillic scripts until I started using XeTeX three years ago. I think that LaTeX3 made some progress on UTF-8 compatibility in the last two years, but font loading is still a mess.
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