On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:26:38PM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 01/01/2011 20:18, TeXWorld wrote: > >Thank you Joseph. > > > >Have the LaTeX3 team ever thought of making LaTeX3 only work with LuaTeX > >and XeTeX ? Why ? To integrate directly into the format fontspec > >functionnalities for instance. > > We have not started on fonts for LaTeX3 yet, but to cut out pdfTeX > would be a pretty extreme move. Just wondering, what benefit pdftex have over luatex (with the later being an extension of the former), or is it about people who are not willing/can't switch to new engine? Do we expect such people to be welling/able to switch to latex3 either? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer