[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Apr 10, 2004, at 6:03 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> - Coordination: It would be more productive, I think, and better for 
> the
> popularity for TeX on the Mac at large, that the design of XeTeX and in
> particular of the XDV format be coordinated with developers of existing
> implementations and variants of TeX (Gerben, Hans, and the other
> knowledgeable people on this list), such that it is 
> backwards-compatible
> with what exists already, and in particular won't break LaTeX and its 
> many
> available packages.

Yes, but maybe there's still room for improvements?

And there's ConTeXt too, of course.  Hans, you should take a look and 
see if you have any ideas on how TeTeX might be improved.

I wonder why they didn't just use pdftex?

Bruce

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