Charles de Miramon schrieb:
I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and does it work reasonably well?
Not yet. The final XeTeX 1.0 has not yet bee released. MiKTeX updates the XeTeX version evey month, while TeXLive will only do this once a year. This could make problems. But more important is, that many packages are still missing. For example the polyglossia package that is the pendant to babel, was release only 3 months ago, so it is still not stable. Other packages like the ones for underlining etc. are not yet working with Unicode. These packages are still under development.
Moving to XeTeX would increase the potential user base of LyX and suppress all the weird problems when an user manage to type something in Arabic / Hebrew/ ... but cannot print it because the correct LaTeX fonts are not installed.
I absolutely agree, but it will take a while until XeTeX is stable enough to use it for LyX. Nevertheless I will have a look at this in LyX's 1.7 development cycle.
regards Uwe
