On 06/04/2010 01:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
In a recent thread here, luaTeX was said to be the intended eventual
replacement for pdfTeX.
This piece of information is based on earlier plans of the pdfTeX and
LuaTeX teams, when the intention was indeed that LuaTeX would become
pdfTeX 2.0
In a recent thread here, luaTeX was said to be the intended eventual
replacement for pdfTeX.
Since luaTeX is Unicode-based, and handles OpenType fonts, what is the
future of XeTeX? Will XeTeX continue to be developed? Should we be
following and experimenting with luaTeX in anticipation of a move
to OpenType font handling, Unicode,
etc. LuaTeX and XeTeX have had completely different development paths
from the beginning (apart from their common origin as extensions of
Knuth's TeX), and they serve different needs. I personally use both for
completely different purposes (through the macro package
Is there any kind of feature comparison between XeTeX and luaTeX?
None that I know of.
My primary needs are, besides
general (La)TeX functionality, Unicode processing of combining
characters and handling of OpenType fonts. The output should
