Re: Choice of processor

Paulo Ney de Souza <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Mar 2025 14:56:45 -0800

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One can add a few things to the list:

 * Some packages are not fully implemented in LuaTeX yet, examples:
pstricks and microtype
 * There is no metric compatibility with the other engines
 * It is much slower than the other engines on average

PN

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM William F Hammond via texhax <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Am Mon, 3 Mar 2025 10:47:32 +0000 schrieb Peter Flynn:
> >
> >> That would be most helpful. I don't want to start recommending LuaLaTeX
> >> after all these years on XeLaTeX if I can't reliably say what might
> need
> >> changing.
> >
> > * if you use options like [xetex] for some packages you should
> > remove these options so that luatex gets not confused
> > . . .
>
> Thanks.  This is helpful.
>
>                               -- Bill
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