[fptex] fptex becomes xemtex

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon May 16 23:40:31 CEST 2005


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> There seems to be some idea that TeX Live and XemTeX are going
> in different directions. They are not. Unless I have completely
> misunderstood Fabrice's plans, he is compiling basically the same source 
> code
> as TeXLive (ie a web2c/kpathsea-based system) for Windows. He
> may fork that code, and proceed with developments faster or slower
> than Olaf Weber, but the essence remains the same.
> 
> TeX live has no troubles :-}

indeed, i can confirm that fabrice's binaries work well in the web2c & tds 
environment

the only tricky area may be that pool files and formats are no longer sharable 
(not that i shared them anyway -) so that platform specific web2c paths are needed

Hans

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