[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.91 released

Will Robertson will at guerilla.net.au
Fri Mar 4 07:18:20 CET 2005


On 4 Mar 2005, at 3:46 PM, suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp wrote:

> Roger Hart wrote:
>
>> for LaTeX, to access these characters, at least most of them.  That 
>> is, the current setup is limited to the font Bitstream Cyberbit, 
>> which is itself difficult to install; I don't think it
>
> I am totally new to this list and I realize my question is a little 
> bit off topic but I've installed Bistream Cyberbit (ie downloaded it 
> and put it in a Font folder) and I did not find it was so terribly 
> difficult to do so. Is there any issue with XeTeX that makes the font 
> not so easy to use ?

He was talking about the "regular" way to do things with CJK TeX, I 
believe, which has much more kludgy ways to deal with the issue of font 
encodings and, especially, font installation. In XeTeX, as you have 
found, it "just works".

Best of luck!
Will



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