[XeTeX] Let me get it straight...

[Alan Munn]

On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 18, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
>> Looking at the file xltxtra.sty that is current as of today in  
>> TeXlive 2010
>> (version 2010/06/03 v0.5d) and grepping it for "Require", we find  
>> that it
>> includes the following commands:
>>
>> \RequirePackage{ifluatex}
>> \RequirePackage{fontspec}[2010/05/14 v2.0]
>> \RequirePackage{ifxetex}
>> \RequireXeTeX
>> \RequirePackage{fontspec}[2010/05/14 v2.0]
>> \RequirePackage{xunicode}
>> \RequirePackage{metalogo}
>>
>> So yes, if you have a version of xltxtra.sty from June this year  
>> onwards, it
>> does automatically load fontspec and xunicode if they aren't  
>> already loaded.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dominik
>>
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>
>>
>> On 18 September 2010 16:57, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Right now I'm loading xltxtra alone (since it loads xunicode and  
>>> fontspec).
>>> In some of my older documents I am loading all three. With an  
>>> updated
>>> fontspec (as of version ?) under xelatex which of the three  
>>> packages do I
>>> need to be loading. Just trying to streamline my xelatex templates.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
> Howdy,
>
> I know about that, but I thought I read that at some point fontspec  
> will include what xltxtra has and, possibly, also include xunicode.  
> Then you would only use fontspec rather than xltxtra or some  
> combination of them.

I think most of xltxtra has been rolled into fontspec: here's a recent  
message from Will on the subject.  (Maybe that's what you recall  
reading, Herb)


On 15/09/10 09:08, Will Robertson wrote:
>
>
> Oh, don't worry, xltxtra will never go away -- but at this point in  
> time I'm no longer recommending that it needs to be used "by  
> default" by most users.
>
> In time I'll merge \vfrac's functionality into the xfrac package, I  
> suspect. Until then continue to use xltxtra :)
>
> W