[XeTeX] Σχετ: Re: Integrating Fontconfig into Mac Xetex

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

And how is this related to the integration of fontconfig under MacOS?

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  Στις Τρί, 26 Αυγ, 2025 στις 9:21 μ.μ., ο χρήστηςYannis Haralambous<yannis1962 at gmail.com> έγραψε:   
Dear friends from the past :-)
I have been using XeTeX for my projects involving Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, for years,mainly because of TECkit, but there are things that I can't avoid and that are quite annoying.For example, when there is a [some Greek letter]+beta -> \1 medial beta ligature in the font(which is essential for Greek), and the word happens to be hyphenated between \1 and thebeta, then the beta becomes initial again. This is very annoying, and Omega would neverdo that.
So I'm currently slowly migrating to LuaTeX, under the guidance of Javier Bezos.
There is another VERY useful feature in LuaTeX: I can decide which PUA characters areright-to-left letters, so I can draw my own Hebrew glyphs, map them to characters in the PUA,and they behave correctly with respect to direction. XeTeX does not allow that.
Best,
Yannis

Le 26 août 2025 à 19:01, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> a écrit :
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:



On 26/08/2025 16:47, Herbert Schulz via XeTeX wrote:

Howdy,

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.

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





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