XeTeX is an extension of TeX that integrates TeX's typesetting capabilities with (a) the Unicode text encoding standard (supporting most of the world’s scripts) and (b) modern font technologies (TrueType and OpenType) and text layout services (AAT, OpenType layout, SIL Graphite) provided by the host operating system and available libraries.
With XeTeX, the advanced typographic features provided by OpenType fonts become available for all TeX users, as well as support for complex non-roman scripts. XeTeX also eliminates the complex task of managing a TeX font installation. XeTeX is now part of the standard TeX distribution TeXLive and works well with TeX macro packages like LaTeX and ConTeXt.

Getting started

XeTeX is included in TeX Live 2007 and other distributions that are based on the same sources. With these distributions, no additional XeTeX installation is required. To get TeXLive go here. Mac users may prefer to install MacTeX.

Examples

Some documentation and examples provided by the developer can be found here.

Bugs and features

We try to collect bugs and features requests in an ordered manner, so ...
- go here to report a bug.
- go here to request a feature.

Source code

The source code for the current development version of XeTeX may be obtained by checking out a working copy from the repository at http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK using a Subversion client, or by downloading a tarball from the ViewVC interface at http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK.