On 2010-03-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Guenter Milde wrote:
>> However, Greek Unicode chars are missing in the output in the
>> following example if:

>> a) babel is included, or
>> b) the \setmainfont line is commented
...

> Please file reports for these. 

Done. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6576

> I don't think our XeTeX has been thouroughly 
> tested yet. I have implemented it (due to user requests), but I do not use 
> XeTeX myself at all.

Thanks for the implementation. Hopefully the upcoming alpha release
will get someone with XeTeX experience interested in testing/reporting.

>> We must replace babel by polyglossia, as babel is not compatible with
>> XeTeX. Selecting XeTeX as output machine is an explicite request for
>> full, language-independent Unicode support.

> Sure, polyglossia support must follow eventually. But this is more work
> than it seems. You have to dive into our language framework, which is
> all over the place. But of course, patches are welcome.

I am aware of possible problems. Maybe its time I read the XeTeX docs.
(I hoped LyX would save me this trouble ;-)

Günter

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