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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/><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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