[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/8/1 Yves Codet <yves.codet at sfr.fr>:
> 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,
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I have a somewhat larger comparison. Only the first word is right, the
remaining words contain at least one error. I admit that I know the
luatex deficiencies and selected a special list of words but all of
them are frequent Hindi words. It will be similar in other languages
of India. Tibetan may be even worse.

> Yves
>
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> Le 1 août 2012 à 15:54, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
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>> 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?
>>
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>>> Ulrike Fischer
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