[lltx] luatexbase

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:30:14AM +0100, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> > That was actually the point, it should load the relevant packages
> > according to the engine used, though I'm still not sure if it is a good
> > idea; we don't want to get limited by XeTeX (being the least common
> > denominator here, flexibility wise). I think François's modern-latex is
> > much better, if we decided to go one common package for different
> > engines route.
> > 
> I tend to like modern-latex indeed. The only drawback with this kind of name is,
> in 15 years, when LuaTeX has been the standard for years and some other
> bleeding-edge engine is under heavy development, "modern" will sound weird :-)
> But I don't think we need to worry a lot about this, since latex3 will be
> finished in the meanwhile and offer built-in support for modern engines, right ? ;-)

And STIX fonts will be released :P

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer