[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

[Yves Codet]

Hello.

Around here there are some Indian people whose language uses Devanagari (but there would be similar issues with other scripts), and some Sanskrit and Hindi scholars as well. I wonder how many would accept to read what is below (produced by LuaLaTeX), instead of किमिति.

Best wishes,

Yves
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Le 1 août 2012 à 15:54, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :

> 2012/8/1 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:
>> Am Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
>> 
>>>> Well you only confirm my impression: That quite a lot of scripts
>>>> never felt the pressure put on us by the movable type printing.
>> 
>>> Is that not good ?  Would Chinese calligraphy look anywhere near
>>> as beautiful if its glyph forms had been forcibly coerced into
>>> meeting the constraints imposed by movable type printing ?
>> 
>> Sure, but people who not only want to look at glyphs and admire
>> their beauty but also use them to communicate through print,
>> websites, mail, twitter, sms ... musst accept that technical
>> restrictions and problems musst be taken into accout too.
>> 
>> Scripts have always been shaped by the material (you only need to
>> look at Cuneiform). And when you switch the material and tool used
>> to write e.g. from clay to paper or to computer this will always
>> have an impact back on the script.
>> 
> LuaTeX can be considered a flavour of TeX thus if XeTeX can load a
> font and use the glyphs as they are now and compose them to form a
> word, I do not understand why a change in the script is needed. LuaTeX
> is not able to form a word from Devanagari glyphs. MS Office,
> OpenOffice, modern web browser can do it, so why should we discard the
> very basics of Indic orthography a create the new one just because
> nobody has implemented the Indic scripts in lua so far? And discard
> all Indic fonts and create new ones that will suit the new
> orthography?
> 
>> --
>> Ulrike Fischer
>> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>> 
>> 
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