[XeTeX] [tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive
Ulrike Fischer
news3 at nililand.de
Mon Oct 31 14:02:32 CET 2011
> > So a font loader should be written as a sort of library with clear API
> > which can be used by every format.
>
> Amen. And if other add-ons could follow suit, what an
> enormous benefit that might bring. Although, as regular
> readers of the list will know, I do have philosophical
> problems with LaTeX, I think that my severest criticism
> is its monolithic nature : if you want to use any part of
> LaTeX's functionality, you have to use the whole caboodle,
> want it or not.
LaTeX monolithic? In general people complain that they have to load
packages for everything ;-). Context is monolithic, but in LaTeX you
only have to use a rather small kernel. And actually quite a lot of
latex packages works also with plain or with mini-latex.
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Ulrike Fischer
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