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Re: Moving to docbook markup

 

On 01/26/2011 03:41 PM, Kevin Godby wrote:
Hey, Kyle.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Kyle Nitzsche
<kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
the page says native source format of LaTeX is Unicode. I thought it was not
because when writers added non-ASCII chars, the build broke and I replaced
them. can you elaborate?
We're using the XeTeX engine which natively supports Unicode.  I'm not
sure what errors you had or where they were coming from, but the
primary (US English) PDF has always built successfully with those
characters in place.

--Kevin
Hi

It was when building non-English pdfs that I got build errors with 'non ASCII character' messages.

Cheers,
Kyle



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