From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20617 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabrice Popineau Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [Aleph] Re: [ANN] XEmTeX 0.5-RC0 Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:11:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117653319 17114 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 19:15:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 01 21:15:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdYe4-0002Ad-EG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:12:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A67C1279D; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25391-03; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C53127F9; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:11:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815B81279D; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:10:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25391-01-2; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:10:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996C012780; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:10:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from SPARKY.metz.supelec.fr (unknown [82.249.165.16]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FCB173565; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:10:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Discussions concerning Aleph In-Reply-To: (Idris Samawi Hamid's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:03:13 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.5 (windows-nt) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20617 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20617 * Idris Samawi Hamid writes: > Hi Fabrice, My congratulations on the release of XEmTeX! Thanks. > A question: Since XEmTeX is explicitly pdfeTeX based: Will Aleph > (which produces (o)dvi) and dvipdfmx be supported? Both Aleph and dvipdfmx (latest CVS version) are provided. You can get the standalone versions too from the same web page. > and lacks many-to-most TeX-related features. My concern about > XEmacs is that there appears to be virtually no movement in the > direction of this kind of multilingual support, something I find > astonishing here in 2005-) When I started using XEmacs, the developers were very active. Nowadays, it is quite calm in this area. I have the impression that the situation has been made very messy by the introduction of Mule long ago and that it will be very difficult to make the switch to Unicode, to speak only about the internals. Regards, Fabrice