On 26/04/2015 11:47, Philip Taylor wrote: > 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 ? > > Philip Taylor
The problem as always is not so much money as people. [Also, you do know about LuaTeX, yes? ;-) More seriously, XeTeX isn't a drop-in replacement for TeX90/pdfTeX.] -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex