[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.99 released
Will Robertson
will at guerilla.net.au
Wed Dec 7 02:40:30 CET 2005
On 07/12/2005, at 2:57 , Jonathan Kew wrote:
> It's been a while coming, but XeTeX version 0.99 is now available
> from <http://scripts.sil.org/xetex> and through i-Installer.
Wonderful, thanks Jonathan.
Right when I was going to get some work done :)
> * added Syriac OpenType support for Meltho (and similar) fonts to
> the layout engine, activated with "script=syrc"
With the next release of fontspec I'm going to be restricting the
script selection to scripts that actually contain shaping code. Is
there a list anywhere of the scripts that XeTeX supports?
> * \fontdimen1 (slant) and \fontdimen5 (x-height) are set
> appropriately when a native font is loaded; as a bonus, a newly-
> assigned value \fontdimen8 is set to the cap height
Nice, thanks. I'll be adding auto-scaling features to fontspec in the
near future...
> * font mappings are now applied to the text before checking for
> possible hyphenation points, which can change behavior in certain
> cases; in particular, en- and em-dashes typed as "--" and "---"
> will no longer be considered possible line-break positions
This is a surprise, but a welcome one! From the previous discussions
it sounded like this was a bit of a limitation with the technique in
general, and although I'd never run into the problem, I wasn't too
keen on the idea of my dashes breaking in half...
> Enjoy!
Thanks!
Out of curiosity, does this polish off the features you're expecting
to have implemented for v1.0?
I'm trying to think why I wanted \ifXeTeXfontexists. And off the top
of my head I really have no clue. Do you think it's a good idea?
Will
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