XeTeX: past, present, future

Jonathan Kew SIL International Play (46min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

What is XeTeX?

• An extended TEX typesetting engine
• Using modern font technologies
  • TrueType, OpenType
  • no TeX-specific font installation or configuration needed
• With “smart rendering” support
  • Apple Advanced Typography (AAT)
  • OpenType Layout for typographic features and complex scripts
  • modern fonts are more than a collection of glyph images
• Supporting the Unicode character set
  • inherently multilingual/multiscript typesetting system
  • greatly simplifies language support

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