How would LyX perform?

[Steve Litt]

Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:52:15 +0100

>Am 30.12.21 um 14:46 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users:
>> Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users said on Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:31:55
>> +0100 
>>> This has shocked me
>>> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115069
>>>
>>> Would be interesting to see how LyX performs  
>>
>> Plain TeX would be much better than LaTeX, as a native format, if it
>> could handle fonts well. Does anyone know of a Plain TeX to LuaTeX or
>> XeTeX converter?  
>
>What do you want to convert?? Every Plain TeX document runs with
>LuaTeX or XeTeX,
>but, of course, not vice versa!

My thought is that I need to convert because I need to use the
tex-gyre-schola font, and as far as I know, Plain TeX won't accommodate
this font. So, as I understand it, my process would need to be:

1: Write in Plain TeX with whatever font is available

2: Convert Plain TeX to LuaTeX

3: Use AWK to replace the font with tex-gyre-schola

4: Compile to PDF

The reason I need this is I could *easily* convert from (X)HTML5 to
Plain TeX. If I can go the rest of the way I can make a nice PDF from
XHTML5.

But I have neither the programming skills nor the LaTeX knowledge to
create LaTeX from XHTML5.

Thanks,

SteveT

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