[scribus] Switch tex engine

[john Culleton]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:29:14 +0100
henry atting <nsmp_02 at online.de> wrote:

> henry atting <nsmp_02 at online.de> writes:
> 
> > Lars Behrens <Lars.Behrens at kit.edu> writes:
> >
> >> Am 30.01.2012 12:41, schrieb henry atting:
> >>
> >>> is it possible to switch the tex engine from pdflatex to lualatex
> >>> when rendering a tex frame?
> >>
> >> In the Settings > External Tools you can select Latex and then
> >> change the command.
> >>
> >> Cheerz,
> >> Lars
> >
> > Great! This makes `inkscape -> scribus' an almost unbeatable
> > workflow to produce cmyk pdfs for prepress.
> 
> Okay, cheered to soon...
> 
> 
> So I changed the header to:
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage[german]{babel}
> \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
> 
> The render frame contains this test text:
> 
> `Zum Üben'
> 
> The german umlaut causes luatex stop compiling:
> 
> *** you should *not* be loading the inputenc package
> *** XeTeX expects the source to be in UTF8 encoding
> *** some features of other encodings may conflict, resulting in poor
> output.
> 
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Üb not set up for use
> with LaTeX.
> 
> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...                                              
>                                                   
> l.14 	zum Üb
>              en
> ? 
> 
> 
> Yes, I did not load the `inputenc' package as I know it is not
> necessary for lualatex. And where does `XeTeX' come in?
> 
> Text without german umlauts are rendered flawlessly.
> 
> henry
> 
Try doing the umlauts the original TeX way:

Zum \:U ben

This combines the umlaut accent mark and the U glyph making a
new glyph. The space after the U is required. 

Alternatively call the glyph for the umlaut by its position in
the font:
\char200 (where 200 is the position of the capital U with
umlaut.) This requires that you look up the glyph position
in the current font chart. (I just used 200 as an example.)

TeX isn't simple. You have to study it a bit to use it
successfully. There is the base package and a series of formats
to be used with with the base package. There are several
variations on the base package as well. You call TeX with the name of a
format (see below) and it automatically uses the correct base
package.

The following are all formats of TeX (there
are others)

tex (AKA plain TeX)
latex
pdftex
pdflatex
luatex
xetex
lualatex
context MKII
context MKIV
(etc.)

The latex formats have an additional layer of code, the document class.
Each has its own set of rules. 

The suggestions I made above are original TeX primitives and should work with 
any TeX format (crossing fingers.)





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