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==XeTeX and ConTeXt==
XeTeX is a potential replacement for pdfeTeX in the ConTeXt workflow. It does not support all of the fancy PDF features found with pdfeTeX, but it supports most core features (see [[#Features|Features]] and [[#Issues|Issues]] on this page). Common consensus is that for text with non-heavy mathematics needs, XeTeX should be an interesting alternative.
Note that XeTeX uses [[Glossary#mkii|mkii]] and [[Glossary#LuaTeX|LuaTeX]] uses [[Glossary#mkiv|mkiv]] ;
in principle mkii is frozen so new features and improvements will only
happen in mkiv.
===Where to get XeTeX?===
* <b>Mac OS X</b>: The best and easiest way of installing XeTeX on MacOSX is by installing [http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX] (Gerben Wierda's [http://www.rna.nl/tex.html i-Installer] is no nore more supported).
* <b>Linux</b>: you can download the source or binaries from [http://scripts.sil.org/xetex_linux SIL] or use the [http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm Stand-alone distribution from Pragma] ([http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/linuxtex.zip linuxtex.zip])
* <b>Windows</b>: Not officially released yet, but available on [http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html W32TeX] and [http://miktex.org/ MiKTeX] distributions and can be used with stand-alone distr. See [[Windows Installation#XeTeX Installation|XeTeX Installation]] under Windows for detailed installation instructions.
; PDF Literals : Because XeTeX relies on Apple's APIs to create PDFs, it is unable to take advantage of certain specials and other types of features that use native (literal) PDF commands.
; Hoefler Italic is too fancy : Hoefler Italic has swashes enabled by default. This is actually a product of Apple's implementation of the font. If this is unsuitable for you, add the feature: <tt>Smart Swashes=!Line Final Swashes</tt> to the HoeflerItalic font synonym in type-xtx.
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