2016-08-30 19:19 GMT+03:00 Claudio Beccari <[email protected]>:
> > Apostolos Syropoulos is included as Cc. He might suggest to use a similar > approach for Greek; at the moment the only gloss-greek.ldf language > definition file works correctly only with XeLaTeX. I know he is not > enthusiast of LuaLaTeX, but he might change his mind when he discovers the > typesetting properties of LuaLaTeX, in particular the full power with > microtype, that with XeLaTeX can be used only for protrusion and not for > character expansion. Another feature is that LuaLaTeX can directly produce > PDF/A-compliant long term archivable documents, while at the moment with > XeLaTeX it is impossible to achieve this goal, unless some tweaking is done > (the problem with XeLaTeX is that its native output is in an extended form > of the DVI format: this file is piped into an extended DVI to PDF > converter, that, on turn, cannot correctly do the job if file compression > is desired, because the PDF/A metadata should not be compressed) > Dear Claudio, I think that noone is really interested in what I like and what I do not like. In addition, I do not really care about PDF/A. I really find almost stupid this idea about a document format that will allow people in the future to read my files, but this is my own personal view. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, GREECE <http://hypercomputation.blogspot.com/>
