Joachim Schrod <[log in to unmask]> writes: > But not necessarily the most interesting. There is also the > possibility of experimenting with new innovative approaches to style > sheets, given by modular XML processors like PXP and modular > typesetting engines like ant. James Clark once wrote somewhere that style sheet processing is a limited form of sgml processing, and I've never had reason to doubt it for author-side processing. Don't underestimate the power of less restrained frameworks like David Megginson's perl module SGMLS.pm (and its friendly interface sgmlspl.pl) for formatting XML to LaTeX. I have recently found it to work with UTF-8 encoded XML documents under Perl 5.6+. With it at some point you'll want to say "use utf8;"; for example, say it in an sgmlspl.pl script if that is your setup. The utf8 pragma is said to be headed for redundancy with eventual versions of Perl (5.8 is current, I think), but is said to be harmless in those versions. So, in fact, I've rolled provision for this in the current gellmu tarball (still not ready for ctan but in my web). An example document is in that tarball: examples/intlchars. This example can be built with the bin/linux/umkg interface if emacs 21, opensp, perl, and, of course, latex and pdflatex, augmented by the new utf8ienc, are all in place. For latex output I am, of course, constrained by what characters are provided in utf8ienc, and for viewing HTML I am likewise constrained by what characters the Gecko layout engine (common to netscape, mozilla, galeon, and konqueror) handles on my platform. I don't yet really have the means to test characters beyond unicode plane 0. The example document is also at http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/utf8/ -- Bill