[tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Oct 28 16:58:11 CEST 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:50:53PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Generally, all XeTeX documents must render in luatex without the need
> of modifying the source. I see that things are changing. Simple नमस्ते
> दुनिया fails in luatex from TL 2010 but works in TL 2011. We cannot
> switch from XeTeX to luatex today but it may be possible in the
> future.

I by works you mean you are getting some output, then this is true,
otherwise I don't think you will get correct Indic rendering with the
current OpenType "engine" used by luatex packages.

Regards,
 Khaled


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