Yuri Khan [2014-06-14 21:51:43 +07:00] wrote:

> Yes, LaTeX does a lot to produce a beautifully typeset printout from
> an ASCII source. This is not enough; I want that same beautiful
> typesetting on screen, in browser, in any page width I happen to have,
> in my favorite typeface and font size, without having to recompile the
> document. And at the same time, it does too much. It has to maintain,
> and document authors have to utilize, a multitude of workarounds that
> are caused by TeX not using Unicode internally.

Yes, but you know, Xelatex with fontspec/mathspec package takes UTF-8
input files and uses Truetype and Opentype fonts. That’s the today’s
Latex actually. I don’t use ``quotes'' and other character-level markup
anymore. Just plain “ ” will do (or ” ”, as we do in Finnish).