Zdenek Wagner wrote :
2011/10/28 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)<p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> :
Mojca Miklavec 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 pdfTeX.
I think that last remark is grossly unfair, although probably
not intentionally so. XeTeX adds functionality that was non-
existent in PdfTeX, but that hardly makes it simpler. It
also introduces a non-TeXlike syntax, particularly (perhaps
only) in the extended \font primitive that could (IMHO)
have been better thought out, particularly in the overloading
of string quotes and the introduction of square brackets.
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 in comparison to pdfTeX."
which is what she actually wrote ?
** Phil.
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