summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-xetex.html
blob: a100e4cb80f42132e5766b73b2291aded716884b (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
<head>
<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label xetex</title>
</head><body>
<h3>The XeTeX project</h3>
<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>
</body>