On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:54:08PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
> I really hope that this initiative succeeds, for despite over
> 25 years involvement with TeX I feel more than a little
> out of my depth when it comes to the innovative features of
> XeTeX, but I would also like to enter a plea : that whatever
> documentation emerges as a result of these discussion be
> platform-agnostic, with (e.g.,) any Apple dependencies
> factored out into one or more appendices. Only too often
> one reads on this list about XeTeX's support for (e.g.) AAT,
> but unless/until that technology is uniformly available
> across all three major platforms (Windows, {Li|U}n{u|i}x}
> and the Apple Macintosh), documentation that is Apple-specific
> will be at best of little use, and as worst totally misleading,
> to those of us that choose not to use the Apple platform.
AAT is a dieing technology anyway and is becoming more and more
irrelevant, still I see no problem with platform specific documentation
as long as it is clearly stated.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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