On 9/10/2010 12:18 PM, Tobias Schoel wrote:
When someone arrives at xelatex he has usually gone some way through the
tex/latex world already. (Mostly latex, I think.) You can safely suppose
that he has read and used:
- lshort
- one latex book (companion, texbook, ...)
- some further tutorials and package documentations he needed
Perhaps I am the exception, but I never used TeX until recently because
my work requires Unicode and OT/AAT support for both linguistic and
high-quality typesetting purposes. That also means I need fonts that
LaTeX traditionally knows nothing about, so the ability to use any
system font is also important. I was delighted when I discovered
Xe(La)TeX but had a long learning curve ahead of me.
On Windows, support for advanced typography, including things like
stylistic alternates that can be important to scholars, typically
requires a large financial outlay for programs like InDesign. I suspect
there are a number of folks who could make good use of Xe(La)TeX but
don't have the background that Tobias suggests. Let's not forget them.
David
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