Simon Spiegel wrote:
From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>
There was a problem with polyglossia because Fran?oise Charette
left academia and no longer had time to maintain it. The current
maintainer is Arthur Reutenauer. I hope that a few volunteers could
help him. Microtypography is not just a matter of the microtype
package, the internals must offer proper primitives. I do not know
whether they are already available. It is not easy in some scripts,
eg in Indic scripts due to glyph reordering.
Maybe it was a mistake to come up with examples, but this is exactly
the kind of answer I wasn't looking for. There is always a perfectly
valid reason why people stop working on a project or why something
doesn't get been developed. After all, we're mainly talking about
people doing this as an unpaid hobby. No one can't be blamed if he
decides that wants to spend his spare time in a different manner.
I am sorry, but I profoundly disagree. It is /vital/ that people
considering undertaking the work are aware of already known
difficulties that they may/will encounter; to ask them to start
work blindly, without a good state-of-the-art appraisal of
difficulties already known or foreseen, is extremely unreasonable
(IMHO, of course). There is a time for debate, and a time
for action, but except in situations involving life-and-death,
intelligent and informed debate preceding action is almost always
a good thing.
Philip Taylor
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