[XeTeX] redefining Unicode characters

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:13:12AM -0500, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> On 1/15/2013 12:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >BTW, next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine), will try to
> >position the accents using their bounding boxes if the font does not
> >have a GPOS table, so it should produce better results in this case
> >(unless the font in question does have a GPOS table).
> 
> Wow, I'm impressed!  When will this new XeTeX be coming out?  Do I
> need to wait for TeXLive 2013?

We don't usually make separate releases, so, unless you are welling to
build from git[1], the answer is yes.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/code

Regards,
Khaled