Pepe Barbe wrote:
After jumping through hoops, with some help I managed to get XeTeX running and using TTF fonts directly with pdfTeX.
But before I go any further I would like to know what is your opinion in using one or the other. When researching a bit on XeTeX I read there were several caveates vs. using pdfTeX with LaTeX.
Is this the same? In ConTeXt. What can I expect to work and what not? If TTF can be used with pdfTeX (with some effort) what is the advantage of using XeTeX with ConTeXt?
by the end of the year / begin next year, pdftex will support open type natively xetex uses libraries and hooks into platform font support; pdftex will stay independent of libraries and focus on extendibility and configurability (think of scripts that demand complex solutions and different ones as well, like arab); of course the question is if in the end it makes much difference for the average user concerning context and these two ... we may end up with a common core and different subsystems and levels of support; graphics for instance can be dealt with in a way hidden from the user, as can input encodings; fonts and font features may differ but i'll try to offer a kind of generic interface to for instance open type features since the definition and control of fonts will differ per engine of course it also depends on what i use (most) and what users demand -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------