[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:17:59AM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Don't forget to mention that XeTeX does not load any font files but
> relies on a (modern) system's "font service" to deliver them upon
> request!

I'm not sure what you mean here, but XeTeX do load and process font
files (at least OpenType, dunno about AAT), the "system service" is used
to locate the proper file to load (even this is not entirely left to the
system, XeTeX still does font name matching on its own).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer