(quite a few off-topic things...) I like XeTeX too. That said, there are more than a few ugly hacks :-). Their dvi driver (a fork of an older version of dvipdfmx) has an option override to embed fonts with licenses which forbid embedding. The current upstream dvipdfmx - managed by a Korean team - still doesn't have that "feature". :-).
Werner Lemberg seems to prefer LuaTeX more (in some private communications) - in terms of support for non-Latin scripts. LuaTeX also have more extensive scripting support for use outside of LaTex-like environment, I think. I don't know much about emacs 24's Arabic/Hebrew right-to-left support - afterall, it has only been released a couple of weeks ago :-), and I don't read Arabic/Hebrew... Would be interested to hear from native users what they think... --- On Fri, 29/6/12, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 June 2012 17:26, Hin-Tak Leung > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > fontspec is nice, but rather tied into XeTeX? > > The important thing is that XeTeX is libre software. Nasty > hack, but > you can import PDFs made with XeTeX into Scribus frames ;-) > > XeTeX is helped a lot today by www.tug.org/texworks and I > used XeTeX > rather than Scribus for my development of Cantarell :-) > > SIL has developed some nice (sadly, as yet unpublished) > XeTeX type > design development document-tools too. The idea is that the > document-tool inspects the font and generates a document > based on > properties of the font itself - ie, generate > immersive-reading > typography with words that include every letter combination > possible > given the characters existing in the font, so that the > spacing and > kerning can be thoroughly checked. > > If Scribus supported OT features, one could create such > software for > Scribus with python scripting to test all OT feature > combinatorial > possibilities :-) > > For Scribus to support OT features, it need only take > advantage of the > QT text shaping, which is based on > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz... > > > One other thing Ricardo might want to check out is > > Pango... anyway, there is a lot text-layout expertise > > in the TeX/LaTeX community, the web-browser > (pango...)... > > ...so its Harfbuzz that is relevant here, not Pango, since > Pango's > OpenType support is delegated to Harfbuzz. > > http://behdad.org/text/ explains some of the history > here, but it is > now rather out of date... > > Behdad, do you plan to update that document? :-) > > > emacs 24 seems to have gained the ability to do > > Right-to-left directions i.e. displaying arabic/hebrew > > the way it is intended. > > That uses m17n, which is a non-OpenType complex script font > format. > Used only by emacs. :-) > > > I also seem to remember some W3C specs/RFCs about fonts > somewhere... > > W3C has the CSS3 Fonts module, and the WOFF format. > > The WOFF format is just compression, and doesn't effect > OpenType features. > > The CSS3 Font module specifies ways to access OpenType > features and > browsers are - as Ricardo said - slowly implementing this. > Microsoft > is leading here - MSIE10 will have full OpenType support - > and Firefox > trailing them. > > -- > Cheers > Dave > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
