[XeTeX] "new-babel", was: Ancient Greek hyphenation

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Mon Apr 23 12:18:17 CEST 2007


Le 23 avr. 07 à 12:07, Will Robertson a écrit :

> Looking forward, I can't see unicode being usurped, so I think if
> we're considering new ways of doing things it's hardly worth the
> effort of designing things to be backwards compatible with deprecated
> font encodings.

Will, I don't agree with you here: backwards compatibility is a  
requirement IMHO.

If the mapping=tex-text mechanism hadn't been added to XeTeX,  
allowing to use older input files in a transparent way, I would never  
have considered using XeTeX on a daily basis.

Bruno



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