[XeTeX] Integrating Fontconfig into Mac Xetex

[Zdenek Wagner]

Well, XeTeX still have features not available in LuaTeX, especially
TECkit mapping. I have not found any document saying how to implement
it and I cannot live without it.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

út 26. 8. 2025 v 17:56 odesílatel Philip Taylor
<P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk> napsal:
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> On 26/08/2025 16:47, Herbert Schulz via XeTeX wrote:
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> Howdy,
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> I may have it wrong but AFAIK XeTeX is at end of life and is no longer being developed/maintained. Recommendations are for LuaTeX (or LuaLaTeX for XeLaTeX). There are some differences but most things work the same or very similar ways.
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> XeTeX may well be "at end of life", Herb, but it continues to do all that I want or (ever expect to) need.  Were LuaTeX to offer the same degree of compatibility with Knuth’s TeX as does XeTeX, I would switch to it willingly, but all the while it deliberately chooses to differ from Knuth’s TeX in totally fundamental ways (e.g., the omission of the \mag primitive), I will continue to regard it as a non-starter.
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> Philip Taylor