Re: [Gnumed-devel] xelatex/ xetex

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:44:31AM +0000, Vaibhav Banait wrote:

> using xelatex will allow input of instructions to patients
> in languages which need support for unicode eg hindi,
> chinese.

Assuming one uses an unicode-aware editor to prepare the
templates, using the LaTeX packages 

        \usepackage[...options...]{ucs}
        \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

        ( http://ctan.org/pkg/ucs )

and enters non-ASCII text into GNUmed this should already be
possible. I agree xetex is designed to make this easier I
have to point out that xetex is still in development AFAIR.

I do admit I'm having trouble actually replicating this with
Japanese but I'm sure given the right setup it'll already
work.

Karsten
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