[XeTeX] Let me get it straight...

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 19, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 2010-09-19 00:27:40 +0930, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> said:
> 
>> Right now I'm loading xltxtra alone (since it loads xunicode and fontspec). In some of my older documents I am loading all three. With an updated fontspec (as of version ?) under xelatex which of the three packages do I need to be loading. Just trying to streamline my xelatex templates.
> 
> Right, sorry for all the confusion around this. I think I spoke too soon about what people should do before I actually updated the code!
> 
> You should now only really need to load fontspec only:
> - xunicode is loaded internally by fontspec.
> - all the *necessary* parts of xltxtra are now inside fontspec
> 
> (You'll need very recent versions of all the bits'n'pieces for this to be correct.)
> 
> Edge cases (all the "unnecessary" parts of xltxtra):
> 
> - if you want OpenType subscripts/superscripts, load the realscripts package separately or load xltxtra again
> - if you want the XeTeX/XeLaTeX logos, load metalogo or load xltxtra again
> - if you want any of the following, load xltxtra again:
>     \showhyphens that works
>     \vfrac
>     \namedglyph
> 
> So if you don't want to have to think about these extra things, there's no problem with loading xltxtra always and by default. But I'd recommend new users just load fontspec -- and this is the only option on LuaLaTeX, as xltxtra doesn't exist for that engine.
> 
> Will

Howdy,

Thanks! That's the information I was wanting. Do you have version numbers after which this is all true? Are the bits and pieces released to CTAN and now in TeX Live?

Thanks again for making the use of System Fonts easy for the XeLaTeX, and now LuaLaTeX, user.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)