Fw: Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

[Hans Hagen]

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>Hello to all,
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>On 12/21/05, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
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>>Recently (most of) the pdftex team met in person and decided on the
>>following:
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>>- add open type support
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>Have you talked to XeTeX's creator, Jonathan Kew? OpenType support in
>XeTeX is stable and Jonathan Kew is opening XeTeX code base as far as
>I understood.
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we talked but not in detail about  this topic; i know that thanh is 
looking into it and

(xetex relies on libraries, which is ok for many purposes but we may as 
well want more control i.e. open type and its features is not the 
ultimate answer; we'll see)

Hans