<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'd like to add a voice of support to Philip's suggestion about petitioning the TUG Board to adopt XeTeX as a formal TUG project. To be honest, I was startled that it doesn't already have such recognition. There's a big community of us using XeTeX and it really should be close to the heart of TUG, and to have access to whatever support, recognition and responsibility as TUG can give.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dominik<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div>--<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Dominik Wujastyk<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">University of Alberta</div><br><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 April 2015 at 04:47, Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To my mind, XeTeX /is/ the future of TeX. The days of entering<br>
"français" as "fran\c cais" are surely numbered, and it has never been<br>
possible to enter "العربية", "ελληνικά" or "עברית" (etc) in an analogous<br>
way. Therefore, is it not time to petition the TUG Board to adopt XeTeX<br>
as a formal TUG project, and to allocate adequate funding to ensure not<br>
only its continued existence but its continued development, at least<br>
until such time as a clearly superior alternative not only emerges but<br>
becomes adopted as the /de facto/ replacement for TeX ?<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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