tetex xetex fedora 7 wish

[Sebastian Gurovich]

Bonjour,
For what it is worth I would second François wish.
The more tex packages the better.


On 5/22/07, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
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> Bonjour,
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> I am wondering if fedora will make a rpm package of xetex. tetex is now
> quite dead for it is no more maintained. xetex is a macOS X distro of
> TeX and is able to compile TeX files with True Type and Open Type fonts
> which is a nice feature to write texts in "exotic" scripts....
>
> I tried to compile from scratch xetex under fc6 but there are some
> compatibilities problems (names of "same" libraries and not identic for
> instance) and there is a problem to make ttf and ot fonts available for
> xetex.
>
> So my wish is: give us xetex with F7...
>
> Regards.
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> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université René Descartes
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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