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Le 30/10/2011 06:25, Vafa Khalighi a écrit :<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> XeTeX font support is heaps
better and stable than what luaotfload<br>
> package offers and I guess that is why many users still like
using<br>
> xetex instead luatex. I personally believe that it is a bad
practice<br>
> that luaotfload just copies ConTeXt code, it should not be
deeply<br>
> dependent on ConTeXt because Hans may want to try
experimenting with<br>
> some features today and next day he gets rid of them just
like the<br>
> recent updates of luaotfload that Khaled talked about it. I
think,<br>
> this is awful! What should users who used those features (and
need it<br>
> heavily in their daily typesetting tasks, do?). They wake up
one day<br>
> and suddenly see that yes, luaotfload does not provide the
features<br>
> they need. luaotfload needs to be written from scratch
independent of<br>
> any ConTeXt code.</span><br>
<br>
An independent fontloader could very well be unstable too. But
anyway I<br>
suppose this will happen some day; relying on Hans's code is the
only<br>
solution for the moment, because nobody has written a public
alternative<br>
(and writing such an alternative is no simple task), but I don't
suppose<br>
it will remain so.<br>
<br>
As far as I'm concerned, I don't use luaotfload but my own
fontloader.<br>
It is not public for the moment because it doesn't do much more than<br>
what I need to do. But I have good hope that somebody will some day
come<br>
with a full solution; or perhaps different people will write partial<br>
solutions (someone could write something for latin typography,
somebody<br>
else could devise an arabic fontloader, and so on and so forth). The<br>
problem is, it's easier to blame luaotfload for its uncertain status<br>
than to sit down and write a replacement; so please let's not forget<br>
that without luaotfload LuaTeX wouldn't be different from PDFTeX as
far<br>
as fonts are concerned.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
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