From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20614 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [ANN] XEmTeX 0.5-RC0 Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:03:13 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117648970 2121 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 18:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "aleph@ntg.nl" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 01 20:02:46 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 1DdXVx-0008SC-RH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:00:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236C127EF; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:23 +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 24537-07-3; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB7B127FF; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1631127EF; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:16 +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 24537-07; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F1C127DD; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:03:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j51I3DS805354; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:03:13 -0600 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j51I1qH882368; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:01:52 -0600 Original-To: Popineau <$}popineau{$@metz.supelec.fr>, mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 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:20614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20614 Hi Fabrice, My congratulations on the release of XEmTeX! A question: Since XEmTeX is explicitly pdfeTeX based: Will Aleph (which=20 produces (o)dvi) and dvipdfmx be supported? As development continutes, might I very humbly-) suggest the following: What the TeX world sorely lacks right now is a good Unicode editor,=20 particularly in the areas of bidi and Arabic script. There is apparently=20 only one editor in the world that does unicode, bidi, and arabic script=20 correctly, and that's UniPad (http://www.unipad.org/main/ ), but it's not= =20 free (as in speech) and lacks many-to-most TeX-related features. My=20 concern about XEmacs is that there appears to be virtually no movement in= =20 the direction of this kind of multilingual support, something I find=20 astonishing here in 2005-) But congratulations once again (and thnx 4 all your past help) All the best!! Idris On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:23:59 +0200, Fabrice Popineau=20 wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.text.tex as well. > > > XEmTeX is a Windows integrated distribution of PDFeTeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt,= =20 > TeX4ht > plus XEmacs playing the text editor. The version 0.5-RC0 is available > for download. It fixes many bugs of the previous 0.5-beta2 version. > > You will find all details on:: > http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-1.html > The page http://www.fptex.org/ has been redirected to the same location= . > > Beware: it is required to uninstall any previous version before trying > to install any new one. > > I will be glad to hear about comments and hints to make that could help > to enhance this distribution. > > Best regards, > --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523