[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.994 for Mac OS X

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Tue Jun 6 23:05:23 CEST 2006


Le 6 juin 06 à 22:04, Peter Dyballa a écrit :

> Am 06.06.2006 um 18:10 schrieb Jonathan Kew:
>
>> Version 0.994 fixes a couple of bugs that had showed up, and also
>> includes several new features: highlights include
>
>   • it's fast now
>
> You have forgotten this item.

In addition, the way glyph metrics work seem better now (this was  
already the case in 0.993). Remember the screenshots I posted,  
exhibiting that even with glyph metrics the combination of OS X fonts  
for text and TeX-style Lucida fonts for maths yielded uneven line  
spacing.

Here's what I get now, with a combination of Verdana and Lucida:

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One may question whether or not this is good typography, but in any  
case the line spacing is even and is identical to what one would get  
with standard TeX (or with gtamacfonts in pdfTeX). Exactly what I was  
looking for.

Bruno Voisin 


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