[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.91 released
Ross Moore
ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Thu Mar 3 07:21:43 CET 2005
Hi all,
On 03/03/2005, at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> I've released XeTeX 0.91, at http://scripts.sil.org/xetex and through
> i-Installer. Get it while it's fresh! ;-)
>
> The main new feature of this release is that it provides a mechanism
> for line-breaking in text such as Chinese that is written without word
> spacing. I'll update the "XeTeX notes" file and post an example
> shortly; meanwhile anyone who wants to experiment with it can ask me
> for a sample file.
Also, Jonathan has left it to me to announce that my package
utf8accents.sty
has been updated to v0.5 and the name has changed to become
xunicode.sty .
It's available from http://scripts.sil.org/xetex as previously,
if you need to install it separately.
The main differences are:
a. Empty accents now work; e.g. previously
\~{} \~{ } \~\ \'{} etc.
just didn't work at all --- now they do.
b. \textasciitilde gives the ~ character,
whereas formerly it gave a raised, small ~ accent
(use \~{} to get the old behaviour).
Other accents are similar, where LaTeX uses
a \textascii.... command with some encodings.
c. The name better reflects the purpose of the package.
So Will (regarding fontspec ), and others who have written packages
that rely on utf8accents.sty , please rewrite the relevant parts
of those packages.
I'd suggest that you use coding such as:
\IfFileExists{xunicode.sty}
{\RequirePackage{xunicode}}
{\RequirePackage{utf8accents}}
to test whether the later version is available on the TeX system.
>
> (Yes, I know, I also need to provide notes and samples for the input
> encoding support that was added a couple of releases ago....)
>
> I've also fixed the bug that resulted in images with embedded
> ColorSync profiles causing xdv2pdf to fail.
>
> Jonathan
Cheers
Ross
>
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