[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.88 released

[Thomas T. Pedersen]

On 12/10-2004, at 17.19, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> I've posted a new version of XeTeX for people to try: there's an Apple 
> Installer package on the XeTeX site at

[snip]

> • initial implementation of OpenType Mongolian shaping for Code2000 
> font (script=mong)
>   - there's a sample file demonstrating this too

[snip]

Amazing! I've done some quick and dirty tests with modern text samples 
from Inner Mongolia in China and compared the output from XeTeX and 
BabelPad (Windows XP) - I haven't run into any display errors yet even 
though this is an "initial implementation". If one is interested in old 
Mongolian texts, I could imagine problems rendering text at this stage 
- but that's beyond my field of interest.

On a side note:

Looking at the XeTeX screenshots and the sample files, I've seen an 
Arabic font "Scheherazade" mentioned. What is this font? Is it OpenType 
or AAT and is it a commercial font or a SIL internal one? I'm just 
curious as the font in the screenshot of "Arabic-script text within a 
Unicode TeX document" is very nice-looking and seems to cover a broad 
range of Arabic characters.

Best regards
Thomas T. Pedersen
http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/