[tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

[Robin Fairbairns]

Vafa Khalighi <vafaklg at gmail.com> wrote:

> As an example, the attached PDF is just a portion of a maths textbook with
> the title "Theory of Ordinary Differential Equation and Dynamic Systems"
> which has been typeset using XePersian and it is  published just today
> in Iran.
> [1]http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1440752
>[...]

impressive.

*some day*, we may get to the point where luatex can be used as a
replacement for anything xetex currently does: at *that* point, one
might consider migrating things so that we only need the one engine with
continued support.

until that day, we *must* hold on to xetex.

robin