[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi Elliott,

To answer your question: as far as I know, from the point of view of xetex as a computer language, it is supposed to be the same as standard tex, and thus ConTeXt should work just as well with xetex. But if you want to use a special XeTeX feature which is not yet introduced into ConTeXt, then you are out on your own. Thus, if you have a ConTeXt document which can be compiled by "old-fashioned" tex, it should also work with XeTeX. But if you want to use a special font feature of XeTeX, it may not be directly applicable if ConTeXt has no support for it. Anyway, for ConTeXt there are separate mail lists and a wiki-like website (ConTeXt garden). The only thing I can say about ConTeXt is that it suffers from the problem that good programmers are not always good writers :-)). Hans Hagen is an excellent programmer, but I have never been able to fathom any of his writings (Sorry, Hans, if you read this :-))  )

Your encouragement is good. I may even start considering making a tentative table of contents for the newly revamped xetex companion - see what comments it will attract.

Cheerio,
Wilfred

--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Thursday, 9 September, 2010, 7:04 PM
> Wilfred, You are so right!
> I am just such an intimidated casual beginner. I find
> myself experimenting in silly directions when my Google-fu
> fails me. Simple questions like "Does Context play nicely
> with XeTeX" turns into "Should I learn memoir instead or as
> well"
> 
> I would so welcome the Xe(mumble) companion that I'll
> volunteer as a test monkey in a blink of an eye. I'll start
> right now by keeping notes of all the dead-ends I go down.
> 
> Elliott
> 
> 
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