On 04/12/2012 14:33, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:52:19PM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: >> Very useful, thanks. Point about detail understood: at the moment I'm >> trying to get my head around the entire area, and to see how the LuaTeX >> version contrasts with the pdfTeX/XeTeX approach. > > In the last few days I have been fancying the idea of scrapping TeX--XeT > from XeTeX and replacing it with code from Aleph (with LuaTeX > modifications backported to it), but no work has been done so far (and > probably never will, I always underestimate how hard things are). > > Regards, > Khaled
Hello Khaled, That would probably make life easier from my POV (I guess there is not so much call for RTL, etc. in pdfTeX). Off-topic here, but perhaps I'll ask a bit more about this on the XeTeX list. -- Joseph Wright
