LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Herbert Voss]

Am 16.12.21 um 14:45 schrieb Pavel Sanda via lyx-users:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
>> Am 08.11.21 um 09:46 schrieb Saša Janiška:
>>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:58:37 +0100
>>> Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> LuaHBTeX   (HB for HarfBuzz) is the default engine for lualatex
>>>>
>>> Thank you since I was not aware of it despite it is being installed on
>>> my Debian machine.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, I was aware of LuaTeX since I was considering to use ConTeXt
>>> instead of LyX/LaTeX...
>> I wrote everything with lualatex and use xelatex in only rare cases
>> and never use pdf(la)tex
> Could anyone of the better informed review https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LuaTeX ?
> Some of the claims (like LuaTeX is still in beta status) are unlikely to be truth
> and they can shape LyX users base in a wrong direction...

That is wrong: LuaTeX ,and XeTeX too, are more or less frozen code, just 
like TeX.
Only bugs will be fixed. There are no good reasons _not_ to use LuaTeX 
instead
of pdfTeX:

- no more fiddling around with the encoding, everything is UTF-8
- no more restrictions in using fonts, all current types are supported,
    like pfb, ttf, utf, ttc, ...
- easy integration of the script language Lua into a document

Herbert