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From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Choosing a LaTeX Compiler (my predilection for LuaTeX)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 23:17:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7kk4eij.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuokh2z3.fsf@posteo.net>

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Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
> would dare to say the following: unless you want to maintain some
> backward compatibility with old documents, I highly recommend using
> LuaTeX or XeTeX, especially LuaTeX. Although pdfTeX is very popular
> among average or veterans LaTeX users, I think using it nowadays doesn't
> make much sense (IMHO).

Except if there is any feature you want to use that doesn’t work under
LuaTeX.

pdfpages for example says that it only supports pdflatex and vtex.

Is there a way to replicate the functionality with LuaTeX? Possibly, but
you have to find out how, and it’s not the first hit on stackoverflow.

Currently LaTeX hasn’t converged on one implementation (which would imply
that all features exist in the implementation it converged on and all
packages were ported or have obvious replacements), so I don’t see a
clearcut decision.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-05 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-05 20:48 Choosing a LaTeX Compiler (my predilection for LuaTeX) Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-05 21:17 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2021-04-05 21:36   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-06 19:03     ` physiculus
2021-04-06 19:13       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 16:57         ` physiculus
2021-04-07 17:26           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 17:53             ` physiculus
2021-04-07 19:52               ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-06 19:46       ` tomas
2021-04-06 20:09         ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-04-07 14:16 ` Diego Zamboni
2021-04-07 15:29   ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2021-04-06 20:44 Ypo

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