Re: pytex: a tex engine written in python

"Philip Taylor (RHBNC)" <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:59:31 +0100
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On 13/07/2026 11:30, Joseph Wright wrote:
Hello Junling,

Looks interesting. With XeTeX essentially unmaintained, this could be a pat=
h for users to migrate to something with updates possible (though accessibl=
e PDFs likely remain more realistic with LuaTeX). Have you considered addin=
g \XeTeXinterchartoks support?

Regards,

Joseph

I too would be most interested in anything that is (a) maintained, and (b) =
capable of doing everything that XeTeX currently does =E2=80=94 I use no ot=
her engine.  But while I rarely use \XeTeXinterchartoks, I use \XeTeXpdffil=
e and \XeTeXpicfile on a daily basis, so would definitely require those (an=
d the other XeTeX + e-TeX primitives) to be supported.

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<div class=3D"moz-cite-prefix">On 13/07/2026 11:30, Joseph Wright wrote:<br=
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Hello Junling, <br>
<br>
Looks interesting. With XeTeX essentially unmaintained, this could be a pat=
h for users to migrate to something with updates possible (though accessibl=
e PDFs likely remain more realistic with LuaTeX). Have you considered addin=
g \XeTeXinterchartoks support?
<br>
<br>
Regards, <br>
<br>
Joseph <br>
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<p>I too would be most interested in anything that is (a) maintained, and (=
b) capable of doing everything that XeTeX currently does =E2=80=94 I use no=
 other engine.&nbsp; But while I rarely use \XeTeXinterchartoks, I use \XeT=
eXpdffile and \XeTeXpicfile on a daily basis,
 so would definitely require those (and the other XeTeX + e-TeX primitives)=
 to be supported.</p>
<p>-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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