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Dear Michail, On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
Am I correct to assume that the default engine in minimals is luatex?
No. Minimals are just a distribution. You can use whatever engine you want. There's no default engine. You can say --engines=luatex or --engines=pdftex when you install minimals, but the default is just --engines=all. If you process you files with texexec, the default engine will be pdftex, but you can also use "texexec --xtx" or "texexec --lua". If you process your files with "context", the default (only possible?) engine will be LuaTeX. The more important question is where the most development is happening. And there has recently been hardly any development in pdfTeX/mkii, which is even more true for future. LuaTeX/mkiv is still a bit unstable, but more fun to use. Mojca