Halloechen! Timothy Murphy <[log in to unmask]> writes: > On Friday 18 July 2003 08:45, Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> My dream is to just insert the UTF-8 sequence of 0x107 and it >> works. Of course, the "cacute" doesn't make sense in math mode, and >> therefore LaTeX doesn't support such things, however I cannot tell >> XML authors which characters they are allowed to type. Even the >> standard latin1 inputenc option isn't math-proof. > > I don't know much about XML, > but this seems to me completely contrary to its philosophy. > Surely XML markup is _meant_ to reflect the meaning of the content > rather than just what you want printed. > > I would have thought TeX was much better suited to your needs in > this case. > > As I see it, Knuth put common-sense above theoretical exactitude, > while XML takes the opposite point of view. as MathML illustrates. I think it's rather some sort of legacy from old 7-bit times. I'm not very fond of MathML either. However, I also said that the "XML file format ... must provide a way to mark math areas". MathML does it, and it should be enough. In LaTeX, it isn't for non-trivial characters: You have to take care of how a certain character must be written in the respective mode. Tschoe, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus