[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi all,

It seems that there have been no replies to the list about Michiel's proposal to make a combined xe(la)tex reference manual and user manual. Personally I would be willing to contribute, but I am not an expert on xetex, rather a casual user with perhaps "advanced" experience of using latex for several types of (scientific) publications. Michiel, what exactly so you have in mind? A Xe(La)TeX Companion, i.e. similar to the latex companion but based on xelatex, and then expanded to include more references to xetex specific commands and programming?

I can see something like this: a user manual focusing on xelatex, typesetting of scientific works, bibtex and the associated front ends, hyperref etc, beamer to make presentations, TikZ (2D and 3D) to make figures, in short, something like a latex companion but modernized and expanded to include a reference manual.

Regards,
Wilfred van Rooijen

--- On Wed, 1/9/10, Michiel Kamermans <pomax at nihongoresources.com> wrote:

> From: Michiel Kamermans <pomax at nihongoresources.com>
> Subject: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"
> To: "XeTeX Mailing List" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 1 September, 2010, 6:07 PM
> Hi all,
> 
> based on some of the talks in the documentation thread, I
> was wondering if I could suggest a documentation initiative.
> Michel Goosens had a stab at chronicling XeTex it in 1996
> with his "The XeTeX Companion" (which has seen a few updates
> since, the last in January 2010) and Apostolos Syropoulos
> was working on his own "The Annotatoed XeTeX Reference
> Manual", with the last update in 2007 (if the generation
> date in the pdf file is correct, Apostolos! =)
> 
> Would there be animo for combining both efforts to form a
> reference + user guide work, or in reviving both as parallel
> but separate documents, brought back up to date to reflect
> everything we can make Jonathan spill about XeTeX and
> everything others have made XeTeX do that can be considered
> something "people will do during their life with XeTeX"
> (including common uses of common packages for which reading
> an entire package manual -- like memoir's -- will be
> overkill)?
> 
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> nihongoresources.com
> 
> 
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