LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Ricardo Berlasso]

El lun, 8 nov 2021 a las 8:51, Saša Janiška (<gour at atmarama.com>) escribió:

>
> Hello,
>
> just curious which engine do you recommend to be used with Lyx: LuaTeX
> or XeTeX?
>

As pointed out in this thread, *in principle* you can use both without
trouble... except when you can't. It's a know "issue" (it can be "fixed"
with extra preamble code) that several OpenType features that should be on
by default, such as italic correction in equations and (if I remember
right) contextual ligatures on normal text, are disabled on LuaTeX, but
work without problems in XeTeX.

If you're a Lua geek, then you'll get a powerful tool to implement your own
macros, but most people are not Lua geeks, so, it's worth it? As always, it
depends: LuaTeX offers more options for microtype than XeTeX and it's
implementing support for variable fonts, but in my experience, when you
want to go a step further with OpenType XeTeX is more reliable than LuaTeX.

But as it's often said, your mileage may vary :)

Regards,
Ricardo



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