Re: LaTeX export: when is it more useful to use LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> Juan, I think it would be great to add your post to worg. I'm happy to
> do this, but I think it wold also be good if we could include a basic
> 'setup' i.e. what changes people might need to (or should do to maximise
> benefit) in order to try out luatex. For example, what settings to put
> in org-latex-pdf-process (I'm guessing something like "lualatex
> -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f") and what (if any)
> packages to add/remove from the org-latex-packages-alist etc (I'm
> guessing that perhaps some font related packages may need tweaking?).
>
> Ideally, what would be good is a very simple recipe for what someone
> should do in order to try out luatex and get the most out of it (or at
> least see potential). 

If only a minor tweaking is required to make luatex work with generic
Org export, I'd add direct support of luatex to ox-latex.el depending on
the value of org-latex-compiler.

Or we may go even further and make org-latex-compiler default to luatex.
This will benefit all the non-latin language users.

Best,
Ihor