[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX
William F. Adams
wadams at atlis.com
Thu Apr 15 11:10:43 CEST 2004
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 04:51 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> XeTeX isn't attempting to "compete" in the standard TeX world. I hope
> it will be able to process standard documents using standard fonts
> correctly (and clearly it's not there yet!), it will never be as
> efficient as pdfTeX for that purpose. But its purpose is to provide a
> high-end typesetting tool that works easily with Unicode and AAT
> fonts, and in particular with complex scripts. To achieve that, it
> sacrifices platform independence and source document portability. And
> for many users, that's a price not worth paying, I realize that.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that we'll be able to do font support nicely
in packages so that it will be transparent and automatic and
self-configuring / adapting to whatever platform / system is being
used.
There is a \ifxetex or \ifaat test, right?
> Having said that, I'm delighted to see the level of interest in this,
> and hope that we can make it into something that works smoothly and
> well.
Actually, I think it may eventually be much more widely useful, if only
to spur on those Omega guys ;)
Seriously, this concept should be adaptable to pdftex and OpenType, no?
It'll just be necessary to plug-in a rendering engine for that ---
wouldn't pango work?
William
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