On Thursday 22 September 2005 09:14, Suki Venkat, [TnQ] wrote: > Hi, > > There is a very nice Mac OS 10.3/4 port of LaTeX/TeX which does OpenType > fonts very well known as the XeTeX. I have tested it for Indic and > Chinese langauges, it does work very well. The nice thing about it is > that it takes the fonts installed in the system. I have not tested it > for OpenType ligature features, but I suppose it works very well. It > basically uses the Mac font engine and may be available soon on > Pentium... > > Both OpenOffice and Scribus still lacks proper Indic/Chinese langauge > support. The story editor in Scribus does it correctly but output > doesn't do the glyph substitutions required in Indic langauges (1.3.1cvs > 22 August 2005 build). Color Management and PDF features in Scribus is > better I suppose than XeTeX.
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