Hello, I know that text commands (as defined by \DeclareTextCommand) have been important because of the various font encodings that arose over LaTeX’s history, but it seems that the situation is quite different for the XeTeX and LuaTeX engines. Given that both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX accept UTF-8 input and use only the TU font encoding, is it acceptable to forgo \DeclareTextCommand for most—if not all—cases? For example, ® can simply be included directly in the document source, so \textcopyright is not much more than an ASCII alias. As for less common symbols, one could simply wrap the text in a document command. Excuse my naîveté, as there are probably important advantages to the text command approach that I’ve completely overlooked. Warmly, Kelly