[Moved from the LuaTeX list as this moves me to XeTeX!] On 04/12/2012 14:33, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:52:19PM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: >> Very useful, thanks. Point about detail understood: at the moment I'm >> trying to get my head around the entire area, and to see how the LuaTeX >> version contrasts with the pdfTeX/XeTeX approach. > > In the last few days I have been fancying the idea of scrapping TeX--XeT > from XeTeX and replacing it with code from Aleph (with LuaTeX > modifications backported to it), but no work has been done so far (and > probably never will, I always underestimate how hard things are). > > Regards, > Khaled
Hello Khaled, That suggests that TeX--XeT is not providing the tools required to do a decent job in XeTeX: is that a fair reading? (I'd guess that there were reasons for the Omega/Aleph/LuaTeX move from TeX--XeT to other approaches, but as a non-expert was not sure how to read it.) A slightly wider question which this leads me to: do I take it that getting some (minor) additions to XeTeX might be possible? There was some discussion last week about a few pdfTeX primitives that might be useful. -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex