Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
But since I know that you've done a lot of work on XeTeX in ConTeXt, I'd really like to know: what exactly can XeTeX do that would make me want to take a more thorough look at it? After a sometimes painful learning curve, I find it nowadays relatively easy to make my opentype fonts work in ConTeXt. I assume that once the integration of opentype in luatex is finished, this will be even more straightforward, giving us access to many opentype features. I'm just wondering if it makes sense to spend more time here or if the XeTeX project will be eaten by its own success, as it were, as most of what it offers becomes integrated into lua/metatex. If you can spare two minutes, I'd be very grateful to have your thoughts on this.
fonts is more than definitions; esp a the level of supporting features and runtime manipulating fonts, xetex and luatex will undoubtely differ; also, xetex uses external font libraries, while luatex does things internaly and under user/macro conytrol (with defaults); due to the nature of fonts, both systems will share characteristics ... the future will learn; from context's point of view ... we will provide a high level interface so users will probably not notice the gory details Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------