> > I understand you're concerned about future font support in LuaTeX, but > technically the engine is little more than an extendable PDFTeX. Fonts > follow that philosophy: TFM (with mapping to T1) fonts are supported > as in PDFTeX, other formats must be loaded and processed by hand. Whether > it's a good idea or not in that case I don't know, but it is definitely > consistent. (Actually I do think it's a good idea, but I accept my > opinion might be marginal.) >
Using TFMs and related technologies seems to me quite outdated. Personally, I want to be able to use any font my system includes without having to do fancy transformations. This and XeTeX's capability to natively process UTF-8 source files were the factors that made me abandon "good", (really) old TeX. BTW, TeX itself is consistent too, but it is definitely outdated. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
