On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> indeed; this is a side effect of xetex being opentype and mp only able
> to deal with 8 bit fonts; in mkiv mp never sees any text (not een the
> btex .. etex which is replaced by by textext before the mp code is
> passed to mp); that's why in mkiv your text is a matter of the current
> run (inlcuding fotn settings and such, i.e. no need to pass anything  
> to
> MPenvironment either)
>

Ah OK, thanks for the explanation. This will make it quite hard to  
support XeTeX. I'll have to look for a sane way to default to lm, then.

> concerning your module ... you can have a mymodule.mkiv alongside
> mymodule.tex if needed

At least for the font setup, I have long runs of \beginXETEX,  
\beginLUATEX and \beginOLDTEX, that was enough for now.

Best

Thomas
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