Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

Hello.

As far as I am concerned I have been using XeTeX for quite a long time 
for all of my daily work. It involves various languages and scripts 
(French, ancient Greek, Sanskrit, IPA...). Most of the issues I had 
were due to my ignorance of LaTeX and of the proper use of FontSpec. 
Everything was solved, thanks to members of this list, and I can work 
quite normally with XeTeX.

The only thing I would suggest is the addition of XeTeX specific 
hyphenation patterns. In standard TeX such patterns are missing for 
languages which are typeset thanks to a package including a 
preprocessor: hyphenation is done by the preprocessor itself. It is the 
case of Indian languages, at least. Without hyphenation patterns it is 
impossible to typeset those languages conveniently (it is rather 
tedious to check each line and add the necessary \- by hand).

I remember you do not feel like editing "language.dat". You could 
simply include existing patterns in your distribution (there are some 
for Sanskrit, which probably work for Hindi as well), asking users to 
add an appropriate entry to "language.dat" themselves.

Best wishes,

Yves