Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > So basically xetex should be only a new output format like pdflatex is.
I do not see how this should work, especially wrt the font selection (which is actually the main reason for people to use XeTeX, AFAICS). > I do not think it is a good idea to make it such a special case that > does not fit in our existing categories... I do not see an alternative (and I do not think adding another 3 font combos is an alternative). > What do you have in mind besides the font selection? Let's see what is required after people have tested this with their documents. I don't know if there are packages we support that are not compatible with XeTeX (I'm sure there are). What need to be changed eventually is the language handling. XeTeX comes with its own language package, polyglossia. Apparently, babel only works for latin- scripted languages but miserably fails for languages where babel changes the encoding, such as Greek. CJK probably also needs some special care. Jürgen
