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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-04-20 23:22:18 +0000
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+Question:
-Question: LaTeX complains about missing commands I have not used. Why?
+ LaTeX complains about missing commands I have not used. Why?
-Answer: The ucs package uses many macros from many packages. You have
-to include these into your preamble. To find out which package
-contains the missing macro, you can use e.g.
- perl discovermacro.pl \themissingmacro
-or
- perl discovermacro.pl mydocument.log
-or use the online version at
- http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/cgi/discovermacro.cgi
-or have a look at the human readable file
- ltxmacrs.txt.
+Answer:
+ The ucs package uses many macros from many packages. You have to
+ include these into your preamble. To find out which package contains
+ the missing macro, you can use e.g.
+
+ perl discovermacro.pl \themissingmacro
+ or
-Question: The package complains about the missing file uni-global.def
-(and other files), but they are in the TeX search path.
+ perl discovermacro.pl mydocument.log
-Answer: Perhaps you have put the ucs/data directory in a directory
-where TeX does not search recursively (e.g. your private TeX directory
-or the current directory). You can change this by putting the unicode
-package into a recursively searched directory or by putting the files
-in ucs/data directly into the searched directory at top level.
+ or have a look at the human readable file ltxmacrs.txt.
-Question: When I try to activate options in \usepackage[...]{ucs},
-LaTeX complains about an option clash.
+Question:
-Answer: ucs.sty probably already got loaded via
-\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}. Try loading ucs.sty first or set the
-options with \SetUnicodeOption.
+ The package complains about the missing file uni-global.def (and
+ other files), but they are in the TeX search path.
+Answer:
+ Perhaps you have put the ucs/data directory in a directory where TeX
+ does not search recursively (e.g. your private TeX directory or the
+ current directory). You can change this by putting the ucs package
+ into a recursively searched directory or by putting the files in
+ ucs/data directly into the searched directory at top level.
-Question: Why is the package named ucs.sty, but the directory unicode?
-(Or: Why are you mixing the names of two different standards)
-Answer: I started with unicode.sty, but there was an name clash with
-Sebastian Rahtz' jadetex/passivetex package. And I think, applying to
-practical solutions like this one, it is OK to use Unicode and UCS as
-synonyms. (UCS is an ISO standard, which has goals similar to those of
-Unicode, both standards agreed to stay compatible.)
+Question:
+ When I try to activate options in \usepackage[...]{ucs}, LaTeX
+ complains about an option clash.
-Question: I get an "TeX capacity exceeded" error. What can I do?
+Answer:
-Answer: Try the option "savemem". This will reduce the memory
-consumption of ucs.sty, especially if you use CJK glyphs, but will
-also slow down operation significantly. Or increase TeX's capacity, if
-this is feasible in your situation.
+ ucs.sty probably already got loaded via
+ \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}. Try loading ucs.sty first or set the
+ options with \SetUnicodeOption.
-Question (Esperanto): LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH CIRCUMFLEX is ugly. ^h
-with babel package option esperanto is not. Why?
+Question:
-Answer: esperanto.ldf has its own macro for ^h, ucs uses the standard
-\^h. Add
- \DeclareTextCompositeCommand{\^}{T1}{h}{h\llap{\^{}}}
- \DeclareTextCompositeCommand{\^}{OT1}{h}{h\llap{\^{}}}
-to your preamble, then \^h and the corresponding unicode character will
-yield the same as ^h.
+ Is the ucs package the same as the unicode package?
+Answer:
+ Dominique Unruh, the original author of the ucs package started with
+ unicode.sty, but there was a name clash with Sebastian Rahtz'
+ jadetex/passivetex package. So he later used the name ucs.sty
+ instead of unicode.sty. The package was subsequently called "ucs" in
+ TeXLive and installed into the directory tex/latex/ucs. However, it
+ was still called "unicode" in MiKTeX and on CTAN. In April 2012, it
+ was decided that the name "unicode" should not be used anymore to
+ avoid confusion. So it is now the ucs package.
-Question: When a line of my document displayed in the TeX terminal
-output or logfile, the non ascii characters are replaced by garbage. Why?
-Answer: The first possibility is, that you don't read the output with
-a unicode enabled terminal. The second is, that TeX replaces some
-bytes by ^^XX sequences. I do not know how to tell TeX which
-characters are to be escaped that way (tell me if you do). If no other
-mean helps, you can use latexout.pl which converts such output to
-UTF-8.
+
+Question:
+
+ I get an "TeX capacity exceeded" error. What can I do?
+
+Answer:
+
+ Try the option "savemem". This will reduce the memory consumption of
+ ucs.sty, especially if you use CJK glyphs, but will also slow down
+ operation significantly. Or increase TeX's capacity, if this is
+ feasible in your situation.
+
+
+
+Question (Esperanto):
+
+ LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH CIRCUMFLEX is ugly. ^h with babel package
+ option esperanto is not. Why?
+
+Answer:
+
+ esperanto.ldf has its own macro for ^h, ucs uses the standard \^h.
+ Add \DeclareTextCompositeCommand{\^}{T1}{h}{h\llap{\^{}}}
+ \DeclareTextCompositeCommand{\^}{OT1}{h}{h\llap{\^{}}} to your
+ preamble, then \^h and the corresponding unicode character will
+ yield the same as ^h.
+
+
+
+Question:
+
+ When a line of my document displayed in the TeX terminal output or
+ logfile, the non ascii characters are replaced by garbage. Why?
+
+Answer:
+
+ The first possibility is, that you don't read the output with a
+ unicode enabled terminal. The second is, that TeX replaces some
+ bytes by ^^XX sequences. I do not know how to tell TeX which
+ characters are to be escaped that way (tell me if you do). If no
+ other mean helps, you can use latexout.pl which converts such output
+ to UTF-8.