[XeTeX] xetex vs. pages

[musa furber]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> One more thing ---
>
> XeTeX (and TeX in general) will break your paragraphs into  
> beautiful lines while Pages will always look much uglier. The only  
> piece of software that seems to come even close to TeX's ability to  
> make beautiful typography is InDesign which, I believe, has lifted  
> at least some of TeX's algorithms.

The just released Mellel 2.0 has hyphenation patterns built from  
TeX's. It includes new settings to control widows and orphans,  
support for columns, and many other new features.

Regards,
Musa