Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:23:50 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1O0Q0CL014344 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:26:00 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1O0IO8h004802 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:25 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n1NN2glh025540; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:22 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 178873 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:22 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n1O0IMUj032740 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:22 +0100 Received: from f7.net (server1.f7.net [64.34.169.74]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n1O0IAbs009606 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:14 +0100 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id n1O0IA428136; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:18:10 -0600 Message-ID: <200902240018.n1O0IA428136@f7.net> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:18:10 -0600 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Karl Berry Subject: Re: "Microkernel" comments To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <624A9DE4-B932-4A6E-AC77-37340563D0C7@gmail.com> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -4 () RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2009 00:23:50.0408 (UTC) FILETIME=[2A8CB080:01C99616] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5673 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.