Re: [OT] Linux Users

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.11.2017 um 23:43 schrieb Br. Samuel Springuel:
> On 2017-11-19 5:28 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > Font selection, language support, UTF-8 input…
>
> All of these are supported in LuaTeX/LuaLaTeX.
>
> For some key differences see this:
> https://www.overleaf.com/blog/500-whats-in-a-name-a-guide-to-the-many-flavours-of-tex#keyfeatures 

There's one feature that sets LuaLaTeX apart from XeLaTeX for my use 
cases, and that's the compatibility of the 'microtype' package. While it 
works with XeTeX it offers a limited feature set - and that package with 
LuaTeX provides (at least for me) those last 5% of beautiful typesetting.

However, this comes at a cost: both XeTeX and LuaTeX work 
*substantially* slower than pdfTeX. I'm always stunned how fast 
"ordinary" compilation can be with LaTeX, for example when simply 
pushing a Markdown document through Pandoc.