[XeTeX] Xetex and Komascript Compatibility

Thomas Gyger teginch at bluewin.ch
Sat Jun 13 07:54:53 CEST 2009


Florian Grammel a écrit :
>>> 1. Are there any compatibility issues between Xetex/Xelatex and 
>>> Komascript ?
>>
>> If the archives don't report any, then none has been found.
>
> I've used this combination for years now and never encountered issues 
> nor heard of any. The few times I thought I had any, it always turned 
> out that the problems were caused by something else
>
>>
>> BTW, you're writing in a simple Latin-based left-to-right script and 
>> language. There is no real necessity to use experimental XeLaTeX, 
>> ripe pdfTeX based LaTeX will work as well ...
>
>
> Actually XeTeX has been very reliable for quite some time now. And 
> there loads of really good reasons to use it for latin 
> script-languages as well, easy font-handling being the first thing 
> that comes to my mind ...

Perfectly agree with you. May I ask you wether you use this combination 
only for english texts or also other languages. The problem seems to 
arise especially with french texts in my case. But I will have to do 
some tests with other languages.

Tom


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