On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Mojca, Aditya,
thanks for your responses. I was aware that you can use textext (that's what I do right now), but was under the impression that sometxt was the way to go (faster and more flexible). Now I'm confused :-)
In mkii (XeTeX included) \sometxt is still the way to go. textext("...") is way too slow and painful to use if you want to use anything but simple LM texts. In mkiv, textext("...") is efficient enough, so in theory it doesn't matter what you use (\sometxt becomes just a synonym for textext("...")), but I didn't test it extensively.
I was asking because I was working on my presentation module. One of the metapost graphics for picture inclusion seems to give problems when run under XeTeX, so I was wondering if I could replace it with the clever sometxt mechanism Mojca mentions in her MyWay. But then I saw that this doesn't work in mkiv... I find XeTeX very hard to support in my module. I don't use it myself, I find fonts deeply baffling (I still got the darned "mktextfm lmtypewriter- blablabla" message a zillion times, and there is no way to stop a XeTeX run;
Apart from noisy messages: did it also fail or was it just annoying? Mojca