Joost Verburg wrote: > I think the Unicode-compatible XeTeX will become the next standard. > MikTeX 2.6 (release date: 2006/H2) will include it.
I think it's way too early to declare XeTeX as "standard". It's just one of several approaches (as is LuaTeX, for instance). The LaTeX history saw more than one of these "coming new standards" come and go. And XeTeX is still far from being mature (or stable). Jürgen
