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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:03:35 -0400
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From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> IFAIK, =C2=A0XeTeX/XeLaTeX based on C++ code.

XeTeX itself is based on patches to Knuth's WEB source code for TeX.
It's the PDF-producing section (xdvipdf or some such) that's written
using a C++ library for handling PDF.

There will be the same problem with LuaTeX; I think also with pdfTeX.

=E2=80=94Joel Salomon