[XeTeX] babel

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 10:33:54 CET 2016


2016-03-25 10:27 GMT+01:00 Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>:

> >
> >IMO the reason for such activity is to have one common declaration for
> all engines so that everything
>
> >is defined at one place and 8-bit babel as well as that for XeTeX is
> generated from the same source.
> >
>
> OK then let's stop compiling and distributing TeX, dvips, etc.! The
> approach: one tool for everything is
> wrong, wrong! Although I rarely use Office suites, there are things that
> one can definitely do with
> a scripting language and LaTeX but it is far easier to use a spreadsheet.
> I am not against Javier's
> project I am just saying this is something the people who maintain babel
> should discuss.
>

Why to stop it? I just feel easier to have one common source for everything
than maintaining a separate source for 8-bit babel, for babel for XeTeX,
for babel for luatex etc.

>
>
> A.S.
>



Zdeněk Wagner
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> ----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
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