Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
As subject. xdv is the eXtended DVi format used by XeTeX.
Actually, it can. LuaTeX produces DVI, which is perfectly palatable to XeTeX's xdv2pdf and xdvipdfmx. What features of xdv are you missing in LuaTeX's output?
Knuth and MacKay were the first to extent DVI, because it does not adequately support bidirectional typesetting. Are you saying, Arthur, that Source to PDF using LuaTeX directly can proceed via Source to DVI using LuaTeX and then DVI to PDF using xdv2pdf (or some other tool) ? I've been told (by Hans Hagen) that even for pdfTeX this is not advisable. I'm looking for a what might be called a Unicode savvy Device Independent binary format. And I'm looking for XeTeX and LuTeX to share code and ideas, when possible. I'm copying Jonathan Kew (XeTeX's developer in on this). -- Jonathan