2011/10/28 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > 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 ? > Well, I I want to typeset a text in Hindi using XeLaTeX, I just type a text in UTF-8, switch the font (using the fontspec package) by \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{fontname} and it works. If I do the same in lualatex, it does not work, I would have to plug somewhere a lot of lua code in order to specify how to handle the Devanagari script. The fontspec package just handles loading the font, not correct rendering of the text.
> ** Phil. > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex