[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 16:29:18 CEST 2012


2012/8/1 Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch>:
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> On 01.08.2012, at 15:45, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:
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>> Simon Spiegel wrote:
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>> > And it might be a good idea to come up with ideas how we can find this someone.
>>
>> "ideas how we can ..." involves discussion, unless you are
>> advocating implementation by fiat, which I am sure you are
>> not.  So what it would seem you are advocating is that we
>> cease technical discussions and move on to personnel
>> discussions -- well, I for one am perfectly happy to leave
>> the personnel discussion to you and to others : technicalities,
>> problems and potential solutions interest me enormously,
>> and I am happy to continue to debate those; "who does what"
>> is a matter of little or no concern,
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> I guess it is of little or no concern if you're not interested in actually getting something done. As a user I'm much more interested in how I can get working tools.
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> But since I'm not interested in proving my own point - that discussions on the future of *TeX tend to drift somewhere where things don't get done -, I'm stopping this here.
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The discussion clarifies what has to be done. It is useless to find a
person to do a job if you do not know what the job is and what the
person must know or learn in order to be able to do it.

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