Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Simon Spiegel
t, or in any volunteer community, for that matter. Having to > go over hundreds and hundreds of emails in a couple of days, few of > which seem to focus on concrete issues (when they're not unmitigated > drivel), just drains any person's enthusiasm and energy -- not to > mention

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 01.08.2012, at 15:45, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Simon Spiegel wrote: > > > And it might be a good idea to come up with ideas how we can find this > > someone. > > "ideas how we can ..." involves discussion, unless you are > advocating impl

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 01.08.2012, at 15:10, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Simon Spiegel wrote: > >>> From: Zdenek Wagner > >>> There was a problem with polyglossia because Fran?oise Charette >>> left academia and no longer had time to maintain it. The current >>

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Simon Spiegel
> > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:47:50 +0200 > From: Zdenek Wagner > To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-2" > >

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Simon Spiegel
like a kickstarter campaign help in finding people who can come up with the needed code? Personally, I'd be more than willing to pledge some code for this. Or is it a question of lack of knowledge (too few people are actually competent enough). Or is it something else? Simon -- Simon Spiegel

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia and BibLaTeX

2010-09-16 Thread Simon Spiegel
es (multiscript support is also on the roadmap: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/biblatex/index.php?title=Roadmap ). Smon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch „When you only have a hammer, yo