Hi Fabrice, My congratulations on the release of XEmTeX! A question: Since XEmTeX is explicitly pdfeTeX based: Will Aleph (which produces (o)dvi) and dvipdfmx be supported? As development continutes, might I very humbly-) suggest the following: What the TeX world sorely lacks right now is a good Unicode editor, particularly in the areas of bidi and Arabic script. There is apparently only one editor in the world that does unicode, bidi, and arabic script correctly, and that's UniPad (http://www.unipad.org/main/ ), but it's not free (as in speech) and lacks many-to-most TeX-related features. My concern about XEmacs is that there appears to be virtually no movement in the direction of this kind of multilingual support, something I find astonishing here in 2005-) But congratulations once again (and thnx 4 all your past help) All the best!! Idris On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:23:59 +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.text.tex as well.

XEmTeX is a Windows integrated distribution of PDFeTeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, TeX4ht plus XEmacs playing the text editor. The version 0.5-RC0 is available for download. It fixes many bugs of the previous 0.5-beta2 version.

You will find all details on:: http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-1.html The page http://www.fptex.org/ has been redirected to the same location.

Beware: it is required to uninstall any previous version before trying to install any new one.

I will be glad to hear about comments and hints to make that could help to enhance this distribution.

Best regards,

-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523