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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-