[XeTeX] XeTeX version 0.6 available
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Sun May 9 21:02:56 CEST 2004
Hello,
I have just installed Ross' driver file and examples for XeTeX 0.6.
I noticed that now, compiling PicFileLSample3.ltx and
PicFileLSamplePDF.ltx I get exactly what Ross reported regarding
previous versions of XeTeX: English text is turned into undecipherable
gibberish:
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I was about to report this as a bug, when I thought about taking my
Textures CM fonts out of /System Folder/Fonts/ and restarting. Now the
bug is gone, and compilation produces the same output with either
pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX, but I can no longer visualize my old Textures
document.
Due to lack of time I didn't follow the email conversations between
Jonathan and Ross, regarding how XeTeX look for fonts, how enclosing
font names between quotes means now something different for XeTeX, thus
I'm not sure what's happening and I cannot really tell anything
relevant. I just would like to point out that, despite its limitations,
I really liked the original XeTeX, which was clearly optimized for
plain TeX and OS X, and I would regret that, in looking for
compatibility with LaTeX and other TeX engines (pdfTeX etc.), it would
lose OS X functionality and become less straightforward to use.
Bruno
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