[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:32:27PM -0400, David Perry wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/10/2010 8:59 PM, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, in the view that this is a large undertaking, I would vote for
> >focusing on that which works uniformaly accross platforms first. such
> >additional, platform specific information can be added later, possbily
> >marked by an apple, windows symbol or tux in the margin to mark which
> >platform its intended for.
> Windows and Linux work the same, don't they, since they both use the
> ICU renderer?  And the number of AAT-specific things that fontspec
> supports is quite small, so this really isn't much of an issue.  But
> we can't ignore those few things; for instance, a Mac user must know
> whether or not to include [script= ] in a fontspec command if text
> in a complex script is to be processed correctly.

That is only true if one is using an AAT font, OpenType fonts are
handled by ICU in all platforms supported by XeTeX.

This shows us why platform specific documentation is needed :)


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 Khaled Hosny
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