[XeTeX] Fonts in the XeTeX installer?

[William Adams]

On Jul 2, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

> With the pre-release of Ralf's FPL Neu, I started thinking about the
> possibility of starting to include some OTF fonts in the XeTeX
> installer.
>
> Candidates for inclusion: FPL Neu, Latin Modern (which could then be
> set up to be used by default), those nice Polish fonts (Antykwa
> Torunska, Iwona, etc.), and if possible, Gentium, Doulos SIL, Charis
> SIL, ...
>
> Advantages would be cross-platform access to a nice set of high
> quality OpenType fonts; yes, it's trivial to install them all
> manually, but I'm not sure that's a step that users should be
> subjected to.
>
> Has anyone any thoughts in this area?

It seems to me that this is a point at which one could then begin  
thinking about a minimal xelatex distribution optimised around  
Unicode and with _no_ support for legacy fonts or encodings.

Isn't creating a Unicode-encoded math font for Latin Modern in the  
works?

What if one took plain.tex, renamed it, re-worked it to support /  
make use of Unicode-encoded fonts including math --- would this then  
make creating a Unicode-oriented successor to Babel easier?

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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