Re: [OT] Linux Users

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Which works substantially slower than compiling to DVI and then using
dvips or similar.

> I'm always stunned how fast "ordinary" compilation can be with LaTeX,
> for example when simply pushing a Markdown document through Pandoc.

Try compiling the TeX source code to DVI (not! PDF) with plain TeX.
That was sort of the definition of a large document in the 80s.

Makes you wonder where LaTeX spends all its time.

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David Kastrup