On 19.9.2013, at 00:21, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> [...]
>>> The output tex file looks something like this:
>>> 
>>> \ifPDFTeX\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\else\fi
>>> \ifPDFTeX\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\else\fi
>> 
>> this looks excellent.  I think we will implement this as the default
>> behavior, but only after 8.2.
>> Does this capture all the possible cases, or are there more cases to consider?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by all cases.  It depends on the the iftex
> package, so everything will break down if it ain't loaded or if it
> ain't loaded before it's used.
> 
> So what would the goal be?  To make it compatible with XeLaTeX and
> LuaLaTeX out of the box?

Yes, this is what I mean.  I would be happy to have some clever line in there that would do the right thing for variants of LaTeX.  THis is also what I mean by "all cases".

- Carsten

> 
> –Rasmus
> 
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