[XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/10/28 maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
>> majority of documents are created using GUI tools.   What use cases
>> are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
>> default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
>
> We have a process that starts with DocBook (XML) and gets converted to
> XeLaTeX using the dblatex program.  We have what I consider to be very good
> reasons for this approach (I suppose some on this list might disagree),
> including interacting with other XML-based processes, automatic tagging of
> words for script, extracting various kinds of data (grammar rules to be
> converted into parsers, examples to be converted into test cases for those
> parsers, etc.).  So yes, we use batch mode.
>
> I don't know how many other users of dblatex there are, but there seem to
> be enough to justify its existence--we didn't create it, we were just lucky
> to find it.  (And also fortunate to need xelatex just as it had matured.)
>
Occasionally I need strictly formatted documents with a limited set of
elements. For this purpose I define the structure in Relax NG and
write an XSLT stylesheet for transformation to (Xe)LaTeX. I am just
working on such a book that will be written in XML and typeset with
XeLaTeX.

>   Mike Maxwell
>
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