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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'm not going to get involved in the polemics
of this thread (which, as has been well pointed out, has tended towards the
puerile), but I am a user of (so-called plain) XeTeX, so far without any strong
incentive to move over to a LaTeX flavour of the program, and I do appreciate
having the hyphenation algorithms immediately accessible so that I just
need to type \latin, \greek, \russian, \irish or whatever to ensure good
word-breaks (I despair of finding an English one which suits my preference for
the old Hart's Rules conventions, so I have a rather gigantic exception
\hyphenation list, which one day will no doubt hit the
program's maximum). In the early days of my transfer to XeTeX, I
think someone said that these algorithms were supplied to XeTeX by Babel, so I
very much hope that it does continue to be a feature of plain XeTeX at least,
and don't see why anyone would want to prevent a member of the TeX
community from enhancing and maintaining it if that's how the person wants to
spend his time. XeLaTeX users have a choice of alternatives, and
polyglossia is clearly of enormous use in some contexts - I would happily learn
it if a project came my way that would be difficult to realize without it.
But until then, I'm very happy with what's on offer in XeTeX, and I deplore the
suggestion that modules should be abandoned, banned, etc. - especially when
couched in the unpleasant terms that I've been reading in these
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<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=juanfranciscofv@gmail.com
href="mailto:juanfranciscofv@gmail.com">Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=asyropoulos@yahoo.com
href="mailto:asyropoulos@yahoo.com">Apostolos Syropoulos</A> ; <A
title=xetex@tug.org href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X
and other platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 04 May 2012 15:19</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] Babel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Although I don't use babel nowadays, I would like to thank to
Javier Bezos his effort and time in maintaining and improving it.<BR>That's
one of the best things of the *TeX world, that you have options to choose what
it is better for you. Perhaps XeTeX is great for some of us today; perhaps
tomorrow again LaTeX+babel, LuaTeX or whatever.<BR>Keith J Schultz said it
better, but I agree with him.<BR><BR>Let's see what Javier and others can
do.<BR><BR>My congrats again, Javier. <BR><BR clear=all><SPAN
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style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>2012/5/4 Apostolos Syropoulos <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:asyropoulos@yahoo.com"
target=_blank>asyropoulos@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV class=im><BR><BR>><BR>> Well, when you compare a LaTeX package to
a TeX engine you either don’t<BR>> know what you are talking about or
deliberately committing a logical<BR>> fallacy, pick your
choice.<BR><BR><BR></DIV>Do you think I don't know the difference between a
typesetting engine<BR>and a package? When I talk about babel I mean
obviously LaTeX and the<BR>package and when I talk about XeTeX I obviously
mean XeLaTeX and some package.<BR>
<DIV
class="im HOEnZb"><BR>A.S.<BR> <BR><BR>----------------------<BR>Apostolos
Syropoulos<BR>Xanthi, Greece<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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