John R. Culleton wrote:
On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually, mkiv also usese afm files instead of tfm when available, so texfont is not needed any more) How stable/reliable is LuaTeX for general use? Well, "not at all" is the wisest answer I can give. Is it possible to run both (mkiv/LuaTeX and mkii/pdfTeX) in parallel? Certainly. In the past year, I have been happy running all of these at the same time:
texexec | texexec --pdftex % engine=pdftex texexec --aleph % engine=aleph texexec --luatex % engine=luatex texexec --xetex % engine=xetex
Is there a phrase or a sentence that will describe the distinguishing characteristcs and/or status of each of these choices? Well, we know about the first one :<) I am bewildered by the rapid changes.
pdftex : traditional tex engine, extended with some functionality aleph : wide font multidirectional tex engine with input parsing xetex : unicode tex engine with open type support based on libs luatex : unicode tex engine with embedded scripting machinery luatex has pdftex and aleph as starting point and depends on lua code for advanced font (etc) support ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------