Well, I just recently was ecstatic to discover XeTeX, an extended implementation of my favorite typesetting engine, TeX, written by Dr Donald E. Knuth. This version adds features that I have long wished for in TeX, and the lack of which were in fact the chief reason I stopped using TeX on a regular basis: support for OpenType fonts, and Unicode text.

This finally afforded me the opportunity to re-work Mark Twain’s Cannibalism in the Cars (PDF of my latest version), using the “expert” font, Adobe Caslon Pro, instead of the original, basic Times font, support for which is built into all PDF readers.

I guess my next project would be to rewrite my résumé (PDF) using TeX (as I originally had it), which lately has been done in OpenOffice on Windows, to take advantage of my favorite OpenType fonts (OpenOffice on Unix systems does not currently support OpenType).