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<p>So XeTeX= Plain TeX +Unicode support and XeLaTeX = LaTeX +Unicode
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2017 09:53 PM, Zdenek Wagner
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<div>Hi,<br>
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to put it simply, XeTeX is just TeX but it works internally in
Unicode, accepts the source files in UTF-8 (BOM is accepted but
is not mandatory) and can use TrueType and OpenType fonts
installed in the operating system. This means that the \font
primitive has other functionality. It is not necessary to know
the details from the very beginning but depending on what you
want to use, whether XeTeX or XeLaTeX, you have to learn the
basics of plain TeX or LaTeX and the basics of language and font
selection (packages polyglossia and fontspec in case of
XeLaTeX). These packages are quite large, if you choose XeLaTeX,
start with simple examples and do not read the whole manual,
return to it later after gaining some experience.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-29 12:02 GMT+01:00 Elof Ng <span
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elof.huang@runbox.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">elof.huang@runbox.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the
document named "XETEX, the Multilingual Lion: TEX meets
Unicode and smart font technologies", Kew mentioned the
e-TEX’s typesetting engine, saying XeTeX is in fact based
on it, but I found nothing about the e-TEX.<br>
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Is it same as PlainTeX?<br>
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I have briefly read the XeTeX Reference guid, Companion,
they just introduce the topics related to the font, what
about the others?<br>
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Is XeTeX composed same as PlainTeX?<br>
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Do I have to learn TeX first?<br>
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