2011/10/28 Vafa Khalighi vafa...@gmail.com:
Hi
Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be the
state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX removed
from TeXLive just like Aleph and Omega (in favour of LuaTeX) were removed
from TeXLive?
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 13:19, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
Hi
Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be the
state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX removed
That is not entirely true. Should the users of TeX (those who use Knuth's
original TeX engine) support the development of Knuth TeX or move to another
engine just because Knuth no longer extends TeX and he only fixes bugs?
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, George N. White III
Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
such stability. It already has a great deal of functionality, probably
enough to last me the rest of my writing career. I do take Vafa's point,
though, that if future OS platforms break XeTeX, it would be nice to have
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
If nothing else, if nobody adapts the code, it might stop working with
next version of Mac OS X or a version after that.
I assume this is related to native Mac font APIs, right? But then I
think the worst case with to disable that
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
such stability. It already has a great deal of functionality, probably
enough to last me the rest of my writing career. I do take Vafa's point,
though, that if
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.comwrote:
Generally, all XeTeX documents must render in luatex without the need
of modifying the source. I see that things are changing. Simple नमस्ते
दुनिया fails in luatex from TL 2010 but works in TL 2011. We cannot
switch
On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Kirk Lowery wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com
wrote:
Generally, all XeTeX documents must render in luatex without the need
of modifying the source. I see that things are changing. Simple नमस्ते
दुनिया fails in
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:50:53PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Generally, all XeTeX documents must render in luatex without the need
of modifying the source. I see that things are changing. Simple नमस्ते
दुनिया fails in luatex from TL 2010 but works in TL 2011. We cannot
switch from XeTeX to
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com wrote:
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
such stability. It already has a great deal of functionality, probably
enough to last
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:54 PM, George N. White III wrote:
0. Why is Tex still necessary? My impression is that Knuth hoped to
see his work used in more creative ways than TeX distros.
Well, that's why LuaTeX is being developed, and the thought behind the
development of ANT (though I haven't
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
Large database publications. Variable data printing.
Also,
2011/10/28 msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
Large database
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
We have a process that starts with DocBook (XML) and gets
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 13:19, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
Hi
Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be the
state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX removed
from TeXLive just like Aleph and Omega (in favour of LuaTeX) were
On 28 Oct 2011, at 21:20, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Omega was remove because it was buggy, unmaintained, but most
important of all: hardly usable. It took a genius to figure out how to
use it, while XeTeX is exactly the contrary. It simplifies everything
in comparison to
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
If nothing else, if nobody adapts the code, it might stop working with
next version of Mac OS X or a version after that.
I assume this is related to native Mac font
2011/10/28 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
We have a process
2011/10/28 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 13:19, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
Hi
Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be
the
state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
If I understand Mojca correctly, she compared XeTeX to Omega.
If that were the case, Zdenek, would Mojca not have written
XeTeX is exactly the contrary. It simplifies everything
in comparison to Omega., rather than XeTeX is exactly
the contrary. It simplifies everything
On Fr, 28 Okt 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
I cannot test other Indic scripts because I do not know them. Tibetan
script may be difficult.
Tibetan is much simpler than Devanagari scripts. It has a certain amount
of fixed ligatures, plus a fw rules if one wants to make non-standard
ligatures
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:06, Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com wrote:
What I would really like is a drop in solution involving a TECkit
map only. That is, I would like to be able to hand such a map off to a
linguist, and to tell him/her to simply add in something like this to
his/her tex
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