LuaTeX vs XeTeX

Joel Kulesza jkulesza at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 13:57:35 UTC 2021


On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 1:50 AM Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de>
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
>

I don't necessarily recommend one versus the other, but I usually use
`pdflatex` unless I cannot, in which case I opt for `lualatex`.  In those
cases, my preference was somewhat informed by other Internet-based opinions
posted here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/126216, and in particular,
claims regarding TikZ compatibility.

Thank you,
Joel
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