[tex-live] Fontconfig for XeTeX versus regular fontconfig

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Oct 28 13:56:00 CEST 2011


I can try looking into bugs reported in my lua code, that is all I can
promise.

Regards,
 Khaled

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:41:13PM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> Well, if you are interested, we (me and you and anyone else interested) can
> port bidi for luatex. You can work on the unicode bidi part and I work on the
> TeX part.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07:45PM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>     > Yes, you were not intersted in LaTeX. your luadirections does no do any
>     TeX
>     > bidi (it only implements unicode bidi) and it is not stable enough for
>     everyday
>     > LaTeX usage.
> 
>     Right, because ConTeXt already implements all the high level stuff I
>     need, so I've to worry only about the low level bidi implementation. I
>     did (at several times) try to do some LaTeX support, but I quickly give
>     up, it is not the kind of stuff I like to spend my time on.
> 
>     Regards,
>      Khaled
> 
>     >
>     > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:04:14PM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>     >     > In fact, in the past I asked Khaled id he would be interested but
>     he
>     >     > had no interest.
>     >
>     >     I don't recall saying that (may be I was not interested in the LaTeX
>     >     part), otherwise I already have a bidi implementation in lua[1] and
>     it
>     >     serves my own (ConTeXt) document well enough.
>     >
>     >     [1] https://github.com/khaledhosny/luadirections
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >      Khaled
>     >
>     >
> 
> 


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