Karl Berry <[log in to unmask]> writes: > little reason to continue even with XeTeX. > > Just for the record, even in the hypothetical future where LuaTeX has > caught up to XeTeX in terms of system font access and Arabic > typesetting, Jonathan K once spoke to me about another reason why > XeTeX will very likely always have a place: good typesetting of other > minority scripts. Since everything in LuaTeX is being programmed from > scratch, it seems highly unlikely it will ever support the variety of > scripts that ICU et al. do. It would seem to suggest itself to me that one part of dropping XeTeX as a separate project would entail module loader and interfaces into ICU. Ideally, one would have built-in support for the more important LuaTeX targets, with seamless ICU fallbacks for the rest. -- David Kastrup