From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Recapitulating
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EEA326.3090509@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e73596b0608241301o6f6aad1dg37172461694b3231@mail.gmail.com>
Pepe Barbe wrote:
> After jumping through hoops, with some help I managed to get XeTeX
> running and using TTF fonts directly with pdfTeX.
>
> But before I go any further I would like to know what is your opinion
> in using one or the other. When researching a bit on XeTeX I read
> there were several caveates vs. using pdfTeX with LaTeX.
>
> Is this the same? In ConTeXt. What can I expect to work and what not?
> If TTF can be used with pdfTeX (with some effort) what is the
> advantage of using XeTeX with ConTeXt?
>
by the end of the year / begin next year, pdftex will support open type
natively
xetex uses libraries and hooks into platform font support; pdftex will stay independent of libraries and focus on extendibility and configurability (think of scripts that demand complex solutions and different ones as well, like arab); of course the question is if in the end it makes much difference for the average user
concerning context and these two ... we may end up with a common core and different subsystems and levels of support; graphics for instance can be dealt with in a way hidden from the user, as can input encodings; fonts and font features may differ but i'll try to offer a kind of generic interface to for instance open type features since the definition and control of fonts will differ per engine
of course it also depends on what i use (most) and what users demand -)
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 20:01 Recapitulating Pepe Barbe
2006-08-24 23:34 ` Recapitulating Mojca Miklavec
2006-08-25 7:18 ` Recapitulating Hans Hagen
2006-08-25 7:13 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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