XeTeX

This page has a list of links related to XeTeX, an extension of TeX with built-in support for Unicode and OpenType. It was originally written and is still principally maintained by Jonathan Kew.

Basics

• XeTeX mailing lists: general discussion, announcements,
• Bug tracker
• Source repository

Documentation and basic packages on CTAN

• XeTeX package page
• XeTeX reference documentation
• fontspec (font handling)
• xltxtra (extra utilities)
• xunicode
• unicode-math
• Polyglossia (Babel equivalent)
• FAQ entries

Presentations and papers by Jonathan Kew

• BachoTeX 2008
• TUG 2007 (video and paper): XeTeX live
• TUG 2006 (slides and paper): Unicode and multilingual typesetting with XeTeX
• PracTeX 2006
• Jonathan Kew's original presentation of XeTeX in TUGboat (26:2)

Tutorials, documentation

• The XeTeX Companion
• XeTeX tutorial targeted at users in the humanities
• Documentation and example usage with the free OpenType font Libertine
• Wikipedia entry
• XeTeX showcase
• XeTeX on LyX
• XeTeX and ConTeXt
• Using XeTeX with Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace

TUGboat articles

• The state of XeTeX, Arthur Reutenauer (40:2)
• What is new in XeTeX 0.9999?, Khaled Hosny (34:2)
• Using TeX Gyre Pagella OpenType Math, Herbert Voß (33:3)
• Are virtual fonts obsolete?, Boris Veytsman (31:2)
• Ancient TeX: Using XeTeX to support classical and medieval studies, David Perry (30:1)
• Advanced font features with XeTeX—the fontspec package, Will Robertson (26:3)

Selected other packages for XeLaTeX (full XeTeX topic on CTAN)

• mathspec (font handling for mathematics)
• fontwrap (automatic font tagging via perltex)
• xecolour
• bidi (bidirectional typesetting)
• xgreek (support for Greek)
• philokalia (interface to the Philokalia-Regular font)
• xecyr (support for Cyrillic)
• ArabXeTeX (ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX)
• xepersian (support for Farsi)
• zhspacing (CJK support)

Blogosphere

• http://www.texdev.net/tag/xetex/
• http://xelatex.blogspot.com/
• http://theotex.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-is-xetex-basic-template_15.html
• http://en.foursenses.net/hebrewinxetex
• http://en.foursenses.net/greekinxetex
• http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
• http://ddcampayo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/xetex/
• Writing Japanese with XeTeX
• http://edin1.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/typesetting-professional-islamic-articlesbooks-with-xetex/
• http://methopath.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/writing-unicode-bengali-in-latex/
• http://oldblog.marcuswinter.de/archiv/2008-01/1283
• Old SIL XeTeX home page

IDEs and Editors that work well with XeTeX

• TeXworks
• TeXmaker
• TeXShop (Mac)
• Emacs/AUCTeX
• Kile (GNU/Linux/KDE)
• LyX