[tex-live] Fontconfig for XeTeX versus regular fontconfig

[Vafa Khalighi]

Well, if you are interested, we (me and you and anyone else interested) can
port bidi for luatex. You can work on the unicode bidi part and I work on
the TeX part.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07:45PM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> > Yes, you were not intersted in LaTeX. your luadirections does no do any
> TeX
> > bidi (it only implements unicode bidi) and it is not stable enough for
> everyday
> > LaTeX usage.
>
> Right, because ConTeXt already implements all the high level stuff I
> need, so I've to worry only about the low level bidi implementation. I
> did (at several times) try to do some LaTeX support, but I quickly give
> up, it is not the kind of stuff I like to spend my time on.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:04:14PM +1100, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> >     > In fact, in the past I asked Khaled id he would be interested but
> he
> >     > had no interest.
> >
> >     I don't recall saying that (may be I was not interested in the LaTeX
> >     part), otherwise I already have a bidi implementation in lua[1] and
> it
> >     serves my own (ConTeXt) document well enough.
> >
> >     [1] https://github.com/khaledhosny/luadirections
> >
> >     Regards,
> >      Khaled
> >
> >
>
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