William F Hammond <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Will Robertson <[log in to unmask]> writes: > >> I'm happy to maintain such a package that's intended to live in tex/ >> xelatex/inputenc.sty if you like; otherwise, it should probably be >> rolled into inputenc.sty proper. > > Although I don't understand the details, I think it would be best if a > maximal collection of "old" LaTeX files will sail seamlessly through > xelatex, and I suppose that would mean accommodation in the regular > inputenc. The maximal collection with maximal compatibility would just switch XeTeX to 8bit-transparency (aka latin-1) and use the normal inputenc on top of that. But that would give us bug and awkwardness and performance hit compatibility and 8bit-boundedness as well. I don't think that is something that many would be happy with. > I hope that texlive 2008 deadlines don't interfere with doing it > right. Probably will, but if we have good arguments, we can probably bargain for some headroom. -- David Kastrup