On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Yue Wang wrote:
Hi, Mojca.
thanks for reply.
There is no problem to make one, but the most important question: Who is going/willing to send me the binaries for the almost-latest XeTeX, metapost, LuaTeX and pdfTeX? If anyone is willing to take that over (send me binaries for the beginning) and to test it, I will add another architecture to the scripts.
I can compile the x86 and amd64 binaries, but the bad news is I have no time :( Let's see if native binaries are really need by people on the mailing list.
Peter is writing some scripts to do everything for you, so you don't need so much time, but at least a computer with enough free space and a bit of patience between pressing a button and having the binaries submitted to the server. But if there is not enough interest and since I have no way to build for BSD ... let me know.
dvips ... might be supported, I don't know.
Is dvipdfm needed?
dvipdfmx? Of course. pdftex cannot handle CID fonts well. it wont embed ttc and otf fonts. Apart from that it generates bigger pdfs than other drivers. But now the dvipdfmx configure files are almost missing, and one cannot just use dvipdfmx foobar.tex to generate foobar.pdf directly. dvipdfmx have better support for Asian scripts, I think, and it is needed before LuaTeX/MKIV is stable to do CJK language typesetting (which we will keep waiting for a long, long, long time).
OK, in that case no problem. I'm sorry, I have mixed up a few things. You may answer me privately about what is needed (and then be ready to test it - I have no Chineese documents, but maybe Arthur could help as well :). Mojca