Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2005, at 10:17 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
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> > 15/10/2005, 6am - Jonathan Kew wrote:
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> > > f. Proper individual character metrics when using native OS X  
> > > fonts. This is harder than it sounds, as TeX wants to know  
> > > height, depth, and italic correction for each character, and this  
> > > information is not present in fonts, only in .tfm's. And it can't  
> > > be derived accurately from the glyph outlines, either.
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> > I am loathe to be tedious, as Bruno Voisin and Will Robertson have  
> > already commented on this, and I have had an earlier email  
> > exchange on this same topic. Still, for the record...
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> No need to be apologetic; I asked because I wanted to hear! And if  
> lots of people seem to be saying the same thing, I might notice. ;)
>
> JK

Thanks for your patience.

And now, come to think of it, I can thank you for having recently  
added a feature that would have topped my list of feature requests  
for XeTeX 1.0: \special{x:papersize=...}. My list of engines was  
becoming cumbersome and unwieldy in order to accommodate a vast (and  
growing -- ugh) number of paper sizes. The relief this brought me  
verged on religious ecstasy. So, prayer **is** answered...;>}

Thanks again

SGM