From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: XeTeX no longer working
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:20:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026132030.2429@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041026113223.GD9745@puritan.pcp.ath.cx>
Nikolai Weibull said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:32:23 +0200:
>I'm sorry to barge in on this discussion, but this XeTeX thing? Are you
>running Mac OS X to use it, or is there an easy way to get it working on
>UN*X? I tried finding information on setting it up on UN*X, but it
>didn't seem there was any.
Hi Nikolai,
Sorry to exclude you, but this XeTeX thing is totally a MacOSX thing.
It's an evolution of TeX/GX, and uses Apple's advanced typography APIs
for font handling. It means *massive* simplification of font
installation, special feature use, and Unicode, but at the cost of cross-
platform-ness and some backward compatibility (mostly in legacy fonts).
The backward compatibility is improving with each release, but the thing
is never going to be cross-platform with respect to Apple's APIs. If you
do get your hands on a MacOSX system, I highly recommend giving XeTeX a try!
[ http://scripts.sil.org/xetex ]
adam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 7:55 Christopher Creutzig
2004-10-26 8:10 ` Adam Lindsay
2004-10-26 11:32 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-10-26 12:20 ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2004-10-26 12:59 ` Nikolai Weibull
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