On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Paul Isambert <zappathus...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 30/10/2011 06:25, Vafa Khalighi a écrit : > > > XeTeX font support is heaps better and stable than what luaotfload > > package offers and I guess that is why many users still like using > > xetex instead luatex. I personally believe that it is a bad practice > > that luaotfload just copies ConTeXt code, it should not be deeply > > dependent on ConTeXt because Hans may want to try experimenting with > > some features today and next day he gets rid of them just like the > > recent updates of luaotfload that Khaled talked about it. I think, > > this is awful! What should users who used those features (and need it > > heavily in their daily typesetting tasks, do?). They wake up one day > > and suddenly see that yes, luaotfload does not provide the features > > they need. luaotfload needs to be written from scratch independent of > > any ConTeXt code. > > An independent fontloader could very well be unstable too. But anyway I > suppose this will happen some day; relying on Hans's code is the only > solution for the moment, because nobody has written a public alternative > (and writing such an alternative is no simple task), but I don't suppose > it will remain so. > > As far as I'm concerned, I don't use luaotfload but my own fontloader. > It is not public for the moment because it doesn't do much more than > what I need to do. But I have good hope that somebody will some day come > with a full solution; or perhaps different people will write partial > solutions (someone could write something for latin typography, somebody > else could devise an arabic fontloader, and so on and so forth). The > problem is, it's easier to blame luaotfload for its uncertain status > than to sit down and write a replacement; so please let's not forget > that without luaotfload LuaTeX wouldn't be different from PDFTeX as far > as fonts are concerned. > > Best, > Paul > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > >
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