On Fr, 11 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > Um, no need to be rude. Well, you started with "throw TeX into the bin!" (cum grano salis) The only possible answer to that is mine. Or shutting up and ignoring that kind of rants from your side.
> insults is a step too far. I haven't said anything that could justify > it, other than the fact that you disagree with my /opinion/. Very simple: replaceing *tex* wiht *xetex* will break existing documents. And that is a no-go. That is TeX world. You are taling about WinWord world. > > You have apparently no idea between input and font encoding. > > I only mentioned UTF-8 with regard to input, so you are assuming > too much. You mentioned *fontconfig* which is font encoding, and has nothing whatsoever to do with inputenc. I don't assume too much. > The inputenc hack only gets you so far. I tried to go this way, and Agreed. Improvements are welcome, please help and fix the shortcomings. > > > sorts out the awful font support, so you can use standard > > > freetype-registered fonts, again without the pain. Result: a > > > document you can actually read in the editor! > > > > Argg, PLEASE STOP THAT RUBBISH!!!! > > What you are calling "rubbish" is not in any way false. It's given It *IS* wrong. You are stating that "using freetype-registered fonts makes a document readable by the editor". Sorry this is rediculous. - different fonts might register themselves under different names to fontconfig - fonts might not be available her or there and migh tnot be embedded in the pdf DEK wrote his own font loading mechanism because he wanted to be sure that docuemtns *can* be typeset also on any other machine, and that works. If you use xetex that might work, or might not work, or might work but you are missing suddently some characters (there is for example a version of the palatino fonts with cyrillic characters, and a version without cyrillic characters, some systems have these *enriched* fonts and don't embedd them properly. THen, suddenly, on the target system, characters disappear. Is THIS the way you want to typeset documetns?) I repeat: RUBBISH. > Well I thought the jury was still out on which was the better solution. Most people I know in the TeX community are seeing the real future with luatex. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MARYTAVY (n.) A person to whom, under dire injunctions of silence, you tell a secret which you wish to be fare more widely known. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110211134338.gh1...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at