OK, when I have time, I will try to examine babel. However, I do not need it as a language feature but as a font feature which can even be added temporarily by \addfontfeature inside a group. There is an important feature for Armenian which works in polyglossia in LuaLaTeX but not XeLaTeX but first I must be able to implement TECkit. I have my private maps for commercial fonts.
Zdeněk Wagner https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/ út 26. 8. 2025 v 18:48 odesílatel Dominik Wujastyk <wujas...@gmail.com> napsal: > > I'm very happy with XeTeX and Polyglossia, and have no plans to change. I > use this combination multiple times every day, and I typeset a whole journal > with it that consists mainly of penalty text. It's completely fine and I > have never experienced a single issue relating to the XeTeX engine. > > Surely "end of life" isn't a particularly meaningful criterion in the TeX > world, where Knuth's commitment to stability, code freezing, and opposition > to creeping featurism has given us all a software platform that is still > productive after more than 40 years. > > Having said that, I recently checked on the TECkit issue, and in fact there > is a transliteration feature in LuaLaTeX that seems to work reasonably well. > I haven't done extensive testing, however. Here's a MWE. > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage[english]{babel} > \babelprovide[transforms=transliteration.iast]{sanskrit} % does what TecKit > does > > \babelfont{rm}[Renderer=Harfbuzz]{Sanskrit 2020} %{Noto Serif Devanagari} > > \begin{document} > \selectlanguage{sanskrit} > \begin{verse} > sarvajñatādiguṇagocaramāyayau yā\\ > dhyeyā yato 'pi yatibandhurabodhi bodhiḥ|\\ > sā satyanirdhutacaturvidhavibhramārtir\\ > mūrtirdṛśāṃ diśatu dāśabalī śivaṃ vaḥ|| > \end{verse} > \end{document} > > > -- > Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History > University of Alberta > > "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, > the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge > through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and > service." > -- Collective Agreement 3.01 > > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 10:02, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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.tay...@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. >> > >> > -- >> > Philip Taylor >> _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list -- dev-luatex@ntg.nl To unsubscribe send an email to dev-luatex-le...@ntg.nl
