[XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Mu EUR 0,02 :

Chris Travers wrote:

> A couple things I'd point out.  TeX makes it possible to create
> beautiful books.  LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
> easily.

but encourages users to create ugly ones.

Why do I say this ?  Well, a user wishing to typeset a book
using TeX has to /think/, and, having thought, will almost certainly
come up with a better design than LaTeX offers out of the box.

A LaTeX user, on the other hand, will -- until he or she becomes
sufficiently skilled and informed to know better -- almost certainly
just use one of the canned styles based on Computer Modern with
excessive white space that LaTeX provides by default.

Philip Taylor