Re: [XeTeX] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-13 Thread David Carlisle
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 03:41, Doug McKenna wrote: > > David Carlisle wrote: > > >| Note this list is for the xetex extended tex, > >| but the issues you raise are unrelated to xetex > >| but to the latex format initialisation so this > >| is not really the right list. > > I checked all the lists b

Re: [XeTeX] [EXT] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-13 Thread Joseph Wright
On 13/01/2020 03:41, Doug McKenna wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: | So because JSBox is required/designed to incorporate all of XeTeX's | features, it must (by definition) implement/provide \Umathcode. Just to be clear, JSBox can eventually incorporate all of XeTeX's features (primitives), but doe

Re: [XeTeX] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-13 Thread Joseph Wright
On 13/01/2020 03:41, Doug McKenna wrote: | load-unicode-data handles some of the reading, but there is additional | reading (see l3unicode.dtx) that is in expl3.sty (in current xelatex | fomats) but will be preloaded in future releases and in the current | xelatex-dev release as noted above. I

Re: [XeTeX] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-13 Thread David Carlisle
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 03:41, Doug McKenna wrote: > >| Are there architectural reasons preventing you from having a > >| format file, or is it simply that you hope to make loading quick > >| enough that you do not need it? > > Yes, and yes. JSBox does not depend on an internal array of integers