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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label xetex</title>
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<h3>The XeTeX project</h3>
-<p/>XeTeX (by Jonathan Kew) is a successor to the shareware TeX/GX
-program for Macintoshes. It is a Unicode-based (UTF-8) TeX
-implementation which is able to make use of Mac OS X AAT
-(Apple Advanced Typography) <code>.dfonts</code> and OpenType fonts. It
-uses Apple&rsquo;s Quartz system (which facilitates the afore-mentioned font
-access) to generate PDF output. XeTeX supports Unicode
-character sets and bidirectional typesetting, and is widely used by
-people studying linguistics, as well as an increasing range of people
-working in other fields.
-<p/>A Linux and Unix-system version is available in TeX Live 2007; that
-version (of course) relies on OpenType fonts alone. A version is
-planned for MiKTeX version 2.7 (currently planned for December 2007).
-<p/>The project has a <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/xetex">web site</a> for
-the user who wants more than this simple answer, and you can also sign
-up to a <a href="http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">mailing list</a>.
+<p/><a href="http://scripts.sil.org/xetex">XeTeX</a>, by Jonathan Kew, is a
+successor to the shareware TeX/GX program for Macintoshes.
+It is a Unicode-based TeX implementation which is able to make
+direct use of the fonts installed on a system. It supports the
+advanced typographical features available in modern font technology
+(OpenType, AAT on Mac OS X, Graphite). XeTeX was
+originally developed for Mac OS X but it is now fully
+integrated in TeX Live on a wide range of platforms, as well as
+being available as part of MiKTeX. XeTeX supports Unicode
+character sets and bidirectional typesetting (via e-TeX primitives).
+It is popular among linguists and scholars in the humanities, as well
+as an increasing range of people working in other fields. Support for
+mathematical Unicode fonts (such as Asana Math and Cambria) is
+progressing.
+<p/>The project has an active
+<a href="http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">mailing list</a>; a
+collection of other information is to be found in a set of
+<a href="http://www.tug.org/xetex/">links on the TUG web site</a>.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=xetex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=xetex</a>
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