[Pkg-fonts-devel] Unicode Font

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dirk Hünniger wrote:

> Essentially the development of the main LaTeX compiler pdflatex, that is
> used by basically everybody has stopped a few years ago. I recently
> discussed the unicode issue with the german tex mailing list.
>
> http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1206&L=tex-d-l

So the problem is that pdflatex is not maintained, not that the
developers of it refuse to fix the issue.

> I want to publish the following project:
>
> http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf

I note there already are several ways to convert MediWiki to LaTeX & PDF:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiPDF
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PDF_Writer
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfBook
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export

> The merged font is needed at runtime. So it needs to be shipped.

Yeah, that isn't really a workable.

How about using something other than pdflatex is so buggy that it
cannot do Unicode properly? pandoc can now convert LaTeX to PDF
without pdflatex.

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