[XeTeX] XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

[Bernd]

I used the Palatino font included with OS X (or was it 9?) in Xelatex 
and the Palatino package in Latex. I have experienced the same with 
Times New Roman (probably the same set up. Yes, that's probably why the 
outcome was different on both sides. But still I think the typesetting 
looks better in Latex. But I don't want to intimidate any specialists, 
that's only my perception. As I said, Arabic looks perfect, also 
compared to ArabTex which is a very fine but rather limited package.

Coming back to XeTeX 1.0, go for it. It is stable enough to be a 
productive software. Anything above that should go into 1.5 developmnet.
Bernd.

Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 17 oct. 05 à 18:11, Bernd a écrit :
> 
>> I'm not completely sure if this comment suits the request as well but 
>> I remember while trying different things with Xelatex that I 
>> encountered a dissimilarity between output of Xelatex and plain Latex. 
>> This is if I try to get exactly the same output with both environments 
>> they are still different in many places, even though I used the 
>> default settings. For example I used Palatino and some usual text. The 
>> output was different in font shape, letter spaces and so on.
> 
> How did you use Palatino in LaTeX on one hand, and XeLaTeX on the other 
> hand? The Palatino support in LaTeX (I assumed you used the mathpazo 
> package) relies on virtual fonts and specially built metrics based on 
> fontinst. The Palatino support in XeLaTeX (I assumed you used the 
> fontspec package) relies on the OS X notion of a font, which is 
> fundamentally different. Is this what you did?
> 
> I assume it would take OpenType, which LaTeX and XeLaTeX both support 
> (through different mechanisms), to get some sort of convergence, given 
> the various characteristics of the font (regarding metrics in 
> particular) would be the same in both cases. Or am I mistaken?
> 
> Bruno Voisin
> 
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