John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>>>>>> well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type
>>>>>> i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually,
>>>>>> mkiv also usese afm files instead of tfm when available, so
>>>>>> texfont is not needed any more)
>>>>> How stable/reliable is LuaTeX for general use?
>>>> Well, "not at all" is the wisest answer I can give.
>>> Is it possible to run both (mkiv/LuaTeX and mkii/pdfTeX) in
>>> parallel?
>> Certainly. In the past year, I have been happy running all of these
>> at the same time:
>>
>> texexec | texexec --pdftex % engine=pdftex
>> texexec --aleph % engine=aleph
>> texexec --luatex % engine=luatex
>> texexec --xetex % engine=xetex
>
> Is there a phrase or a sentence that will describe the distinguishing
> characteristcs and/or status of each of these choices? Well, we know
> about the first one :<) I am bewildered by the rapid changes.
pdftex : traditional tex engine, extended with some functionality
aleph : wide font multidirectional tex engine with input parsing
xetex : unicode tex engine with open type support based on libs
luatex : unicode tex engine with embedded scripting machinery
luatex has pdftex and aleph as starting point and depends on lua code
for advanced font (etc) support
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