Am 05.06.2011 um 21:24 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd):
So how is it, I am forced to ask, that an add-on package can achieve
something that the underlying
engine cannot ? This seems very odd to me.
The fontspec package does not use PDF specials which TiKZ/PGF uses.
That's my simply explanation. It has built-in transparency support
which is built-in into Mac OS X. Xdvipdfmx does not use this (yet).
Unfortunately fontspec is targeted solely at (Xe)LaTeX users,
whereas Will
Robertson's "/X/?/TEX reference guide/" is targeted at all users of
XeTeX and
makes no mention under the entry for the extended syntax of \font that
some of the options are not universally applicable, whence my
confusion.
It also supports LuaTeX. Since LuaTeX is connected somehow to ConTeXt,
which can when based on the xetex engine produce transparency, it
might be able to follow closely the fontspec documentation...
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