Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Oct 2007 19:37 UTC, submitted by Kelly Rush
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2005-08-07
TeX is "frozen" which means that development stopped
and only bug fixes occur now (has been decades since a bug was found in TeX).
Yet...new varaint of TeX are being developed :
XeTeX supporting unicode
(it is at version 0.997...don't know if there will ever be a version 1.0 : it has been between version 0.95 and version 0.997 for a few years)
and LuaTeX (the future of TeX) supporting :
_unicode
_with integrated Lua
_ with revamped internals (that can be overloaded) and callbacks
Actually in Beta version
AS for myself, I don't use TeX anymore as I need Etex features or unicode.
For now, I stick with XeTeX but I'll switch with Luatex some time in the future...
My conclusion is...finished products like TeX are "dead" (cause we want more, limits are frustrating) however great they are...