[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.85 released

[Jonathan Kew]

On 3 Sep 2004, at 5:37 pm, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:

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> Op 3-sep-04 om 17:15 heeft Jonathan Kew het volgende geschreven:
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>> After the summer lull, a new build of XeTeX is now available: version 
>> 0.85.
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> Jonathan,
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>
> Just downloaded the package. Do the differences show in the Sample 
> files using Arabic?
>

No, I don't believe you should see any differences there.

The OpenType Arabic enhancements relate to "extended" Arabic characters 
added since Unicode 2.0; some examples include the SUBSCRIPT ALEF mark, 
the DOTLESS BEH and DOTLESS QAF letters, the "honorific" marks at 
U+0610..0614 or thereabouts, and others. Most would be used rarely if 
at all in everyday Arabic; they're for specialized/historical use or 
for other languages that use extended forms of the Arabic script.

JK