[XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Philip Taylor
May I ask whether XeTeX is still being "actively" ( or even passively) developed ?  I ask because, once again, I came up against a fundamental limitation of XeTeX yesterday — the fact that a font can be defined to be of a specific colour, but the colour model is restricted to RGB.  Given that (I

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Adam Twardoch (Lists)
Phil, Looking at the Sourceforge activity: https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/code/commit_browser the latest source is v0.9 which was prepared in February 2018 for TeX Live 2018. The changes seem to be bugfixes and seem to mostly originate from Japanese contributors. They are summarized at http

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
I think that historically what you say about print is true... but I produce many many PDFs (syllabi, documentation, slide presentations) and for all intents and purposes non of them go to print anymore; simpler and cheaper to view on screen. Still interested in the answer though! Karljürgen

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Philip Taylor
Thank you Adam — I will do as you suggest.  Karljürgen's comment is interesting, and may well reflect reality, but nonetheless I believe that support for CMYK (and perhaps for other colour models) would be a worthwhile addition to an invaluable piece of software. ** Phil. Adam Twardoch

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> the fact that a font can be defined to be of a specific colour, but the > colour model is restricted to RGB. And what is wrong in using the color or xcolor (or event the xespotcolor) packages? A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Philip Taylor
Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > And what is wrong in using the color or xcolor (or event the xespotcolor) > packages? The colour (etc) packages are intended to offer colour support for engines such as TeX and PdfTeX that do not offer intrinsic colour support at the primitive level.  XeTeX /do

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Zdenek Wagner
ne 16. 9. 2018 v 21:15 odesílatel Philip Taylor napsal: > > > > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > > > And what is wrong in using the color or xcolor (or event the xespotcolor) > > packages? > > The colour (etc) packages are intended to offer colour support for engines > such as TeX and PdfTeX that

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Philip Taylor
Zdenek Wagner wrote: > And in addition to the texts, we need rules so we should be able to > set colours of \vrule and \hrule as easily as a colour of a font. Agreed (and also background colours for boxes and pages), but I would be reluctant to propose too much in a single "Request for enhance

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Zdenek Wagner
ne 16. 9. 2018 v 21:45 odesílatel Philip Taylor napsal: > > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: > > And in addition to the texts, we need rules so we should be able to > > set colours of \vrule and \hrule as easily as a colour of a font. > > Agreed (and also background colours for boxes and pages), but I wou