[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

[William Adams]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> ATSUI is used by the engine on mac to support AAT fonts, also
> corresponding services are used for finding system fonts. It is possible
> to disable all Mac specific code and build XeTeX as if it was another
> Unix (I think MacPorts does this, on 64 bit at least), but that might
> not be acceptable for every one.

Acceptable in-and-of-itself, no.

As a fall-back position, it'd certainly be valid, but it looks as if the concern raised by the OP may be groundless.

William

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