From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX?
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:24:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7xzdkc0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <taaoqg$cft$1@ciao.gmane.io>
Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> On 09/07/2022 01:49, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>> Juan Manuel Macías writes:
>>
>>> TL;DR: A list of use cases where using LuaTeX is more advantageous than
>>> using pdfTeX
>> I forgot to ask earlier. Is Lua support in Babel potentially useful? The current
>> implementation doesn't work too well.
>
> In the context of LaTeX your question is rather ambiguous.
>
> - I have never tried lua interpreter as the handler of source blocks in Org (org-babel).
> - If you mean LuaLaTeX as the engine for "#+begin_src: latex" blocks then some
> incompatibilities may arise due to font selection. PdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX needs different
> code in preamble to specify encoding and fonts. With LuaTeX you get more convenient OTF
> and TTF font selection, but you you have to pay for the feature. It is necessary to
> explicitly specify all families: normal, typewriter, italics, etc if you need Unicode.
> - There is babel LaTeX package. A decade ago polyglossia was a replacement of babel for
> XeTeX and LuaTex, but currently babel is recommended for these LaTeX engines as
> well. Sorry, if this statement is not precise enough.
Actually, that is a good point.
Juan, I think it would be great to add your post to worg. I'm happy to
do this, but I think it wold also be good if we could include a basic
'setup' i.e. what changes people might need to (or should do to maximise
benefit) in order to try out luatex. For example, what settings to put
in org-latex-pdf-process (I'm guessing something like "lualatex
-interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f") and what (if any)
packages to add/remove from the org-latex-packages-alist etc (I'm
guessing that perhaps some font related packages may need tweaking?).
Ideally, what would be good is a very simple recipe for what someone
should do in order to try out luatex and get the most out of it (or at
least see potential).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-09 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-08 12:17 LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX? Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-08 15:49 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-07-08 16:46 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-08 15:54 ` Greg Minshall
2022-07-08 16:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2022-07-08 17:27 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2022-07-08 19:03 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-08 18:49 ` Thomas S. Dye
2022-07-09 2:23 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-09 3:23 ` Thomas S. Dye
2022-07-09 11:10 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-09 3:24 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2022-07-09 3:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-09 4:10 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-09 5:35 ` Dominik Schrempf
2022-07-09 6:31 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-09 9:59 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-09 23:49 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-10 11:19 ` M-x org-create-worg-article command? (was: LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX?) Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-10 19:06 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 2:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-11 2:49 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 3:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-11 4:00 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 4:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-10 19:31 ` LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX? Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-09 10:42 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-09 12:15 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-09 14:58 ` Juan Manuel Macías
[not found] ` <b58ee3cc-c58c-b627-9cc5-51993020db2c@gmail.com>
2022-07-09 20:22 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-10 20:23 ` [possible patch] Basic fontspec code for LuaLaTeX and XelaTeX (was "LaTeX export: when is it more useful...") Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-10 20:31 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-10 20:58 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-11 13:34 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-11 2:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-11 7:50 ` Stefan Nobis
2022-07-11 14:19 ` Timothy
2022-07-11 15:00 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-11 17:45 ` fontsets (was: [possible patch] Basic fontspec code for LuaLaTeX and XelaTeX (was "LaTeX export: when is it more useful...")) Timothy
2022-07-11 22:09 ` fontsets Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-12 7:12 ` fontsets Stefan Nobis
2022-07-12 11:37 ` fontsets Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-12 15:26 ` Fallback fonts in LuaTeX via 'luaotfload.add_fallback' (was "Fontsets") Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-15 14:35 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-11 3:59 ` [possible patch] Basic fontspec code for LuaLaTeX and XelaTeX (was "LaTeX export: when is it more useful...") Greg Minshall
2022-07-11 8:05 ` Stefan Nobis
2022-07-11 11:39 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-11 12:04 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-11 12:31 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-11 14:23 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-11 17:20 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-16 3:01 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-11 17:08 ` LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX? Max Nikulin
2022-07-10 2:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-09 0:34 ` Matt Huszagh
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