LuaTeX vs XeTeX

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 14:03:00 UTC 2021


I thought all LaTeX have to pass strict tests and produce identical
results.  Any difference due to different fonts.  Is this correct?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:06 AM Herbert Voss via lyx-users
<lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:
>
> Am 16.12.21 um 22:12 schrieb Virgil Arrington via lyx-users:
> > Starting with the completely clean files, I added the Microtype
> > package to both and compiled them. As with my first test, I got
> > different results. XeTeX once again produced many more hyphenated
> > lines -- essentially the same as it produced without Microtype -- than
> > did LuaTeX. Neither produced any significant overfull lines at the
> > right margin.
> >
> > So, it seems as if Microtype behaves differently with XeTeX and LuaTeX
> > -- at least on my system.
> >
>
> Sure, microtype for xetex is not the same as microtype for luatex.
>
> Herbert
>
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