9 Jan
2022
9 Jan
'22
8:42 p.m.
On 2022-01-08 22:43, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
... LaTeX, which has fantastic PDF support
I think we're seeing different problems. Mine was caused by a literal U+03A9 ("Ω") somewhere in the document. The default LaTeX toolchain for the particular project's Sphinx setup wasn't Unicode-aware. Only by changing one config line from "pdflatex" to "xelatex" did the manual compile. I'm not professionally involved in typesetting any more, but the most recent, most capable Unicode/multilingual typesetting system I've seen is a version of troff. Neatroff - http://litcave.rudi.ir/ - handles bidirectional typesetting and Opentype ligatures for scripts that use different glyphs depending on their place in a word. cheers, Stewart