On 2010-09-15 04:19:40 +0930, Khaled Hosny
<khaledho...@eglug.org> said:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44:06AM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
I’ve not been following the recent back-and-forth regarding which
XɘLaTeX packages are now obsolete, and which are compatible with LuaLaTeX.
Right now my personal style files files have lines like these:
\ifxetex
\RequirePackage{fontspec, xunicode, xltxtra}
\fi
\ifluatex
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
\fi
Am I missing something here? Where does realscripts fit in?
The xltxtra documentation isn't that complex, is it? :) This is what
the readme says:
- Loads fontspec and Ross Moore's xunicode automatically.
- Loads Andrew Moschou's metalogo package for \XeTeX and \XeLaTeX logos.
- Loads the fixltx2e package and patches other LaTeX commands:
\textsuperscript & \textsubscript:
now use fontspec to access
real superior/inferior characters,
\showhyphens: now works,
- Defines the dubiously useful commands
\vfrac - for vulgar fractions with fontspec
\namedglyph - to access font glyphs by name
Of these, #1 is covered just by \usepackage{fontspec}, #2 you can do on
your own if you need it, #3(a) is what realscripts does (for XeLaTeX or
LuaLaTeX), #3(b) isn't used often, and #4(a,b) are probably never used.
When I have a moment I'll remove the code from xltxtra that does #3(a)
and just load the realscripts package instead.
Long story short, I'd recommend these days just loading fontspec and
seeing if that works for you :)
Remove xltxtra, add realscripts (if you need its functionality, but
usually the fonts are broken so it does not work the way it should), now
if you need the extra logos, load one of the packages that provide
extra tex logos, hologo for example.
I wouldn't say the fonts are "usually" broken, but they are broken
often enough that doing it automatically in fontspec would be a bad
idea.
Cheers,
Will
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