Hello Vafa, Yes indeed, I thought it was very kind of you to think of me, and I hope you got my reply at that time. If not, you should know that your careful concern was deeply appreciated.
I wish you the best in this venture. Pity I haven't got the savvy at this point to help. Happy to help road test though if and when... Best wishes and thanks for the comment. K Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:33 PM, Simon Cozens <si...@simon-cozens.org> wrote: > >> On 20/11/2016 12:35, Vafa Khalighi wrote: >> For the past 10 years I have reported numerous issues to the LuaTeX >> and etex teams without any results but it is more than enough. I am >> not going to waste time and energy doing useless things. > > Well, it's not necessarily useless. If both engines are using the same > model, then you have twice as many communities available to fix bugs. > And it means the bug fixes and bidi expertise can be shared between the > two communities. I would also recommend XeTeX moving to the LuaTeX model > - and then fixing it! > >> I put my time and energy into developing an engine that really has a >> working bidi model. an engine which is developed by a native speaker >> and meets the needs of people with real documents. > > XeTeX has a lot of advantages in terms of opentype support, large set of > packages and mature community. It's a shame the bidi support is not > great; that is a known problem and there are not many people with the > expertise to make it work and do it well. As I understand it, the > problems with bidi were one of the reasons that Khaled stopped working > on XeTeX, which in a sense is a shame - he's exactly the sort of person > you need to get this right... > > If you want an engine with a working bidi model, then you might want to > have a look at SILE. (https://github.com/simoncozens/sile) It uses the > Unicode bidi algorithm and so you get multilevel reordering without any > markup required. (See > https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/blob/master/examples/arabic.pdf) But > of course then you don't get the large set of packages and the mature > community... > > S > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
