XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX
Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users. Here's my report: if you are thinking about upgrading, do it. Now. MacTeX 2010 is a big improvement over MacTeX 2009. Particularly if you're a XeTeX user. The feature that has me *really* jazzed is that XeTeX has added support for margin kerning. This means that several microtypographical goodies, like hanging punctuation (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hanging_punctuation), finally work right. The new default version of PDF is also now 1.5, which means that it no longer mangles my illustrations. Yay! When I compiled several of my test documents this morning, they looked noticeably better. (Which isn't to say they looked poor last night.) Also, it seems to work very well with LyX. I have not yet had any trouble, even when compiling absurdly complicated things (like my book draft). Anyway, I thought I would let you know. Cheers, Rob
XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX
Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users. Here's my report: if you are thinking about upgrading, do it. Now. MacTeX 2010 is a big improvement over MacTeX 2009. Particularly if you're a XeTeX user. The feature that has me *really* jazzed is that XeTeX has added support for margin kerning. This means that several microtypographical goodies, like hanging punctuation (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hanging_punctuation), finally work right. The new default version of PDF is also now 1.5, which means that it no longer mangles my illustrations. Yay! When I compiled several of my test documents this morning, they looked noticeably better. (Which isn't to say they looked poor last night.) Also, it seems to work very well with LyX. I have not yet had any trouble, even when compiling absurdly complicated things (like my book draft). Anyway, I thought I would let you know. Cheers, Rob
XeTeX Updates in TeX Live 2010/MacTeX
Dear LyX Users, Not sure if this is of interest to many LyX users, but I think I'll post it anyway. TeX Live 2010/MacTeX were released a few weeks ago (maybe months ago, I haven't really been paying attention). Anyway, I updated this morning and wanted to send a general report for Mac users. Here's my report: if you are thinking about upgrading, do it. Now. MacTeX 2010 is a big improvement over MacTeX 2009. Particularly if you're a XeTeX user. The feature that has me *really* jazzed is that XeTeX has added support for margin kerning. This means that several microtypographical goodies, like hanging punctuation (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hanging_punctuation), finally work right. The new default version of PDF is also now 1.5, which means that it no longer mangles my illustrations. Yay! When I compiled several of my test documents this morning, they looked noticeably better. (Which isn't to say they looked poor last night.) Also, it seems to work very well with LyX. I have not yet had any trouble, even when compiling absurdly complicated things (like my book draft). Anyway, I thought I would let you know. Cheers, Rob
