[XeTeX] Babel

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/5/2 Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>:
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>> Why shouldn't I consider using TeX? (I am Portuguese, by the way.)
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> Because XeTeX and luaTeX do a far better job! First you don't
> need tricks to use UTF-8 and you don't have to create zillions of
> files to make a TrueType partially usable. Do you need more reasons?
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There are still good reasons why to use old TeX:

1. XeTeX does not support all microtypographical features.

2 LuaTeX does not support all scripts (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi,
Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, ...)

Polyglossia does not yet work in LuaTeX, thus Babel is important.

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> Apostolos Syropoulos
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