[XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

[Adam Twardoch (Lists)]

Phil,

Looking at the Sourceforge activity:
https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/code/commit_browser
the latest source is v0.99999 which was prepared in February 2018 for TeX
Live 2018.

The changes seem to be bugfixes and seem to mostly originate from Japanese
contributors. They are summarized at

https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/code/ci/master/tree/source/texk/web2c/xetexdir/NEWS

and there have been a few minor changes after that. It looks like
"features" were last added in 2016. It seems like XeTeX does not have very
active development or maintenance, but there is some.

I would encourage you to file a feature request at
https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/feature-requests/

If it's recorded, it's possible that at some point someone will address it.

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 19:31, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
May I ask whether XeTeX is still being "actively" ( or even passively)
developed ?  I ask because, once again, I came up against a fundamental
limitation of XeTeX yesterday — the fact that a font can be defined to be
of a specific colour, but the colour model is restricted to RGB.  Given
that (IMHO), the vast majority of XeTeX output is intended for print rather
than for on-screen display, would it be possible to add support for
additional colour models (and specifically for CMYK) in a future
instantiation of the \font primitive ?
-- 
<Signature>
Philip Taylor


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