XeTeX
A TeX typesetting engine for creating high-quality documents by incorporating modern fonts from around the world
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| + | Unicode Support | Handles Unicode-encoded text, allowing for multilingual documents |
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| + | Modern Font Support | Supports OpenType, Graphite, and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) fonts |
| + | Direct Glyph Access | Enables direct use of advanced typographic features, like ligatures and swashes |
| + | Script Diversity | Excels at typesetting documents in various scripts, including non-Latin ones |
| + | Math Typesetting | Integrates well with LaTeX for mathematical expressions |
| + | Customizable Hyphenation | Users can define custom hyphenation patterns |
| + | Microtypography | Provides microtypographic enhancements for better spacing, kerning and alignment |
| + | Bidirectional Text | Handles right-to-left scripts (like Arabic or Hebrew) effectively |
| + | Advanced Layout Control | Provides extensive control over page layout elements like margins, columns, and headers/footers, enabling precise document structuring |
| - | Font Metrics for System Fonts | Requires font metrics for system fonts, which can be less straightforward than with other engines. |
| - | Limited Microtypography | While it offers excellent Unicode support, its microtypography features are less sophisticated compared to pdfTeX. |
| - | Clipping Limitations | Neither XeTeX nor XeLaTeX supports clipping directly. |
| - | Image Dimension Issues | Struggles with determining dimensions for imported JPG images; a workaround involves converting JPGs to PDF format first. |
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Developer
Written in
Pascal(WEB), C, C++
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