Hi all, IMO the reason for such activity is to have one common declaration for all engines so that everything is defined at one place and 8-bit babel as well as that for XeTeX is generated from the same source.
Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2016-03-25 10:13 GMT+01:00 Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com>: > > > > > >I think that it is absolutely correct that you build in continuing support > >for old encodings that may no longer be used with new documents. > > > > Personally, I think this is an absolutely wrong approach! For legacy > documents, > we have legacy enginees like TeX. More specifically, if one wants to use > legacy > > 8-bit or 7-bit encodings and legacy fonts, then she can use TeX. There is > absolutely > no reason to use XeTeX! After all, this the reason why the TeX community > includes > in TeXLive things like dvips, METAFONT fonts, etc. Finally, XeLaTeX can > process > these documents with existing packages just fine, why bother rewriting old > things > with "modern" ink? > > > Apostolos Syropoulos > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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