To my mind, XeTeX /is/ the future of TeX. The days of entering "français" as "fran\c cais" are surely numbered, and it has never been possible to enter "العربية", "ελληνικά" or "עברית" (etc) in an analogous way. Therefore, is it not time to petition the TUG Board to adopt XeTeX as a formal TUG project, and to allocate adequate funding to ensure not only its continued existence but its continued development, at least until such time as a clearly superior alternative not only emerges but becomes adopted as the /de facto/ replacement for TeX ?
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