I'm very happy with XeTeX and Polyglossia, and have no plans to change. I
use this combination multiple times every day, and I typeset a whole journal
<http://hssa-journal.org> with it that consists mainly of penalty text.
It's completely fine and I have never experienced a single issue relating
to the XeTeX engine.
Surely "end of life" isn't a particularly meaningful criterion in the TeX
world, where Knuth's commitment to stability, code freezing, and opposition
to creeping featurism has given us all a software platform that is still
productive after more than 40 years.
Having said that, I recently checked on the TECkit issue, and in fact there
is a transliteration feature in LuaLaTeX that seems to work reasonably
well. I haven't done extensive testing, however. Here's a MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\babelprovide[transforms=transliteration.iast]{sanskrit} % does what TecKit
does
\babelfont{rm}[Renderer=Harfbuzz]{Sanskrit 2020} %{Noto Serif Devanagari}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{sanskrit}
\begin{verse}
sarvajñatādiguṇagocaramāyayau yā\\
dhyeyā yato 'pi yatibandhurabodhi bodhiḥ|\\
sā satyanirdhutacaturvidhavibhramārtir\\
mūrtirdṛśāṃ diśatu dāśabalī śivaṃ vaḥ||
\end{verse}
\end{document}
--
Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
University of Alberta
"The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and
service."
-- Collective Agreement
<https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
3.01
On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 10:02, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, XeTeX still have features not available in LuaTeX, especially
> TECkit mapping. I have not found any document saying how to implement
> it and I cannot live without it.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
>
> út 26. 8. 2025 v 17:56 odesílatel Philip Taylor
> <p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk> napsal:
> >
> >
> > On 26/08/2025 16:47, Herbert Schulz via XeTeX wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I may have it wrong but AFAIK XeTeX is at end of life and is no longer
> being developed/maintained. Recommendations are for LuaTeX (or LuaLaTeX for
> XeLaTeX). There are some differences but most things work the same or very
> similar ways.
> >
> > XeTeX may well be "at end of life", Herb, but it continues to do all
> that I want or (ever expect to) need. Were LuaTeX to offer the same degree
> of compatibility with Knuth’s TeX as does XeTeX, I would switch to it
> willingly, but all the while it deliberately chooses to differ from Knuth’s
> TeX in totally fundamental ways (e.g., the omission of the \mag primitive),
> I will continue to regard it as a non-starter.
> >
> > --
> > Philip Taylor
>
>
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