[XeTeX] "new-babel", was: Ancient Greek hyphenation
Will Robertson
wspr81 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 05:04:18 CEST 2007
Hello,
I just want to mention that it's probably a bad idea to proliferate
packages beginning with "x" to stand for XeTeX, because the LaTeX3
project has used this prefix for years for *their* packages. I mean,
it's not the worst thing in the world but it's better not to create
confusion where possible.
So, no "xbabel" -- use "new-babel" or "mini-babel" or better yet, a
new new name altogether. "multilang" or "tongues" come to mind. I
know it's silly to be thinking of the name before anyone has even
accepted responsibility for starting code, but it's a Sunday morning :)
On 22/04/2007, at 6:31 , Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> In XeTeX, however, the same effects are achieved either with
>> font-specific "smart" features, or with mappings, or, finally, with
>> active characters (just like in traditional non-Unicode engines).
>> That's
>> why I think XeTeX is much closer to (pdf)tex than Omega or Aleph
>> as far
>> as language support packages are concerned.
>
> They are closer by analogy not because they are closer by
> definition. Also,
> I think this TECkit feature of XeTeX allows people to do things
> quite similar
> to OTPs (ok up to a degree).
As people with experience now both with XeTeX and with Omega, are we
missing anything here by not having access to OTPs? LuaTeX *will*
have them, for what it's worth, but are they *necessary* to typeset
(or make things easier) for any particular language? Or has Unicode
+OpenType solved all our problems?
Will
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