> On 12 Jul 2022, at 22:46, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > > Jonathan or Arthur or anyone can correct me, but so far as I have > observed, no one has been working on such new xetex developments for > years now. > > If there is anyone out there with sufficient time, interest, and skill, > a volunteer would surely be welcome. If a small grant would be any > enticement for this particular (or other) task(s), the TeX development > fund (tug.org/tc/devfund) is available.
If anybody wishes to take on that task, here's another possible item for the todo list: the support of colour emoji fonts. I have not tried with other emoji fonts, but Apple's font (Apple Color Emoji.ttc in macOS) is supported by LuaHBTeX in Harf mode, but not XeTeX. Overleaf has a very nice technical article on TeX's support of emojis https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/An_overview_of_technologies_supporting_the_use_of_colour_emoji_fonts_in_LaTeX discussing in detail why XeTeX doesn't support them (ie lack of support of raster-based OpenType colour fonts). It would be nice if somebody were able to overcome that obstacle. Bruno
