Outline plans for a XeTeX writer

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@@ -2404,6 +2404,28 @@ Ideas:
   b) scan "stylesheets" and "latex-preamble" options and use ``utf8x``
      if it contains ``ucs``
 
+XeTeX writer
+````````````
+
+Generate LaTeX source code suitable for XeLaTeX.
+
+  You will need to do three things to your source document to convert it
+  to XeLaTeX:
+
+  1) save the source as UTF-8
+  2) remove any fontenc/inputenc/mathptmx
+  3) add the following to your preamble:
+
+  \usepackage{xltxtra}
+  \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
+
+  This will use the real Times New Roman font.
+
+  -- a comp.text.tex post by Alan Munn 2010-05-10
+
+Use a separate writer (inheriting from latex2e) instead of a ``--xetex``
+option, to allow separate config options for XeTeX vs. LaTeX2e.
+
 
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