what is the reason for having two .def files here. I can't imagine an insurmountable technical reason for having two independent .def files these days. Indeed, it would seem highly desirable to me to merge them, with conditional parts as needed. It sure was a pain to be applying changes to both independently, when I was the one doing that. One of the reasons I was so happy to turn them over to you guys :).
As I expect you know, they currently exist separately because of their historical development. xetex.def was based on dvipdfmx.def at the time of creating XeTeX. And that was reasonable during active XeTeX development. And so it has continued to the present day. But nowadays, when dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx themselves have been (sort of) merged (thanks always to Khaled ...), merging the .def files too seems good. --thanks, karl. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
