so 9. 9. 2023 v 23:28 odesílatel Mike Maxwell <mmaxw...@umd.edu> napsal: > > On 9/9/2023 4:20 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell: > > > >> I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran > >> Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the > >> default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese. > > > > Yes that should work fine, luahbtex is the default engine for > > lualatex since tl 2020 and harfbuzz can be used with latex + > > fontspec by using the option Renderer=Harfbuzz > > > > see e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/515934/2388 > > Thank you, that is good news! > > At this point, what are the advantages of Xe(La)TeX vs. Lua(La)TeX? > Apart from the crash Andrew reported, and the staleness of XeTeX's > development. Or maybe putting it differently, are there any situations > that require XeTeX? > According to documentation it seems to me that ucharclasses work only with XeLaTeX. If I use longer texts, I prefer polyglossia because I need hyphenation. However, if I just want to insert single words, it is simpler with ucharclasses.
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