[XeTeX] Re: XeTeX & Unicode vs. standard LaTeX

[Will Robertson]

On 11 Oct 2004, at 7:40 AM, Ross Moore wrote:
> With [new-fangled font mapping thing], and Will's new .fd  files,
> and  utf8accents.sty ,
> we should be very close to having full backward compatibility
> with legacy LaTeX documents.

I've found that Mac OS X is actually supplied with very few of the free 
PS fonts also distributed with TeX. So backwards compatible isn't 
perhaps entirely correct. A good project for someone would be to either 
(a) convert the entire PostScript Base 35 set to OpenType and install 
in XeTeX with tfm files (a la Computer Modern) or (b) convert them to 
OpenType for Mac OS X installation.

The former would be good because it wouldn't clutter up the font menus 
in regular apps, and would be a more seamless installation. The latter 
would be good coz everyone likes more fonts, don't they? :)

Will