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- From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: Software lock-in, NeXT get a life!
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <eronald.724544541@ruble> <1992Dec17.172641.1584@gamelan>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:54:14 GMT
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- In <1992Dec17.172641.1584@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
-
- >In article <eronald.724544541@ruble> eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald)
- >writes:
- >> I write. I write for a living. I write on my cube, when I can. Then I have
- >> to hand the copy in to an editor. Said (human :) editor sits in front
- >> of a PC. My text is usually in French, contains all these nice accents
- >> which the french seem to need like salt and pepper.
- >>
- >> There is a DOS Ascii character set, and a Windows character set.
- >>
- >> HOW THE HELL IS ONE SUPPOSED TO MOVE TEXT TO EITHER?
- >> AM I THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD WHO GETS ANGRY ABOUT THIS?
- >> OH, YES, I KNOW ABOUT RTF. ON THE NEXT RTF MEANS NEXT_RTF :(
- >>
-
- >Same with german umlauts. Did someone manage to transform NeXT-RTF to PC-RTF ?
- >I believe it's not too difficult.
-
- This is just one aspect of what some people like to call the "font
- encoding morass", a problem has has been around for some time but wasn't
- particularly noticeable back when computers and/or their apps didn't talk
- to each other much. Now that they do the different encoding schemes cause
- all sorts of trouble and you need all sorts of filters/translators (look
- for example in the "utilities" provided by TeXMenu3.0 -- itself a great app
- by the way --- where there are 5 or 6 such filters supplied. The font
- encoding problem is really a pain in the TeX world for a variety of
- reasons, not the least of which being that Knuth did not use a uniform
- scheme when he first wrote the package.)
-
- I have a copy of a long descriptive post on this issue which appeared in
- comp.text.tex some months ago. It dosn't offer specific solutions but does
- make it somewhat clearer where the problems come from. I'd be glad to
- E-mail a copy to anyone who wants it (reposting it in this somewhat
- inappropriate newsgroup seems a waste of bandwidth).
-
- Tom
-
-