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Re: Experience using XeTeX with XeTeX?

Charles de Miramon
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:56:53 -0700

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

> Charles de Miramon schrieb:
> 
>>> I was asked if it's possible to use LyX with XeTeX, is this possible and
>>> does it work reasonably well?
> 
> Not yet. The final XeTeX 1.0 has not yet bee released. MiKTeX updates the
> XeTeX version evey month, while TeXLive will only do this once a year.
> This could make problems. But more important is, that many packages are
> still missing. For example the polyglossia package that is the pendant to
> babel, was release only 3 months ago, so it is still not stable. Other
> packages like the ones for underlining etc. are not yet working with
> Unicode. These packages are still under development.


I'm no specialist in this field, isn't there also some problems with math ?

Cheers,
Charles 

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