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==About < [[Fonts in XeTeX==]] >
minor restructuring and detail document encoding
[http://scripts.sil.org/xetex XeTeX] is a new TeX engine by Jonathan Kew and SIL International, which combines eTeX with pervasive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Unicode] support and advanced font support (multiple language, special AAT and OpenType font features, trivial font installation). It does this by leveraging [http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ Apple Advanced Typography] support on MacOSX, so it gains its strength in features by sacrificing TeX's usual cross-platformness, and some backwards compatibility.
texexec --xtx myfile.tex
===Document Encoding===
XeTeX is able to handle UTF-8 or UTF-16 documents natively, without any interference or configuration from ConTeXt. If you do want ConTeXt to process UTF-8 characters specially, then you can activate it with <tt>\enableregime[utf]</tt>. Be aware that you are then limited by the named glyphs that exist in the unicode vector files (<tt>unic-0xx</tt>). It is generally desirable to enter UTF documents without any regime notated, and let XeTeX work its magic, however.
* Accents and named glyphs
* TeX-ish ligatures
===Features===
