<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dominik,<div><br><div><div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Not long ago, Jonathan noted about a particular problem that,<br></font></font><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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The best chance of fixing this will be if xetex is updated some day to use the new <span class="il">harfbuzz</span> engine, but there's no immediate prospect of that, I'm afraid.</blockquote><div><br>Like most of us on this list, I use XeTeX, value it enormously, and depend on it for day-to-day work. But it's becoming clear to me that the long-term maintenance of XeTeX is not assured. <br>
<br>Can we discuss this?<br><br>Best,<br>Dominik<br>
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</blockquote></div><br></div><div>This worries me as well, since A LOT of people use XeTeX for production level</div><div>work. On the Macintosh, XeTeX uses a deprecated font library which Apple</div><div>never converted to 64 bits. The latest documentation from Apple says that this library</div><div>will be removed entirely in "a future system." That's scary for such a central</div><div>component of the TeX distribution.</div><div><br></div><div>Dick Koch</div></body></html>