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How to use LuaTeX or XeTeX in latex?
2. LuaLaTeX vs XeLaTeX and what are they? LuaTeX and XeTeX are alternative TeX engines and both are designed to work with Unicode text. Invoking LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX just means invoking LuaTeX or XeTeX with LaTeX format.
How to compile a PDF file in LuaTeX?
Compilation should finish fine without errors and it should produce a PDF file. If you are using TeXworks & MiKTeX on MS Windows, compiling a document with XeLaTeX is as simple as choosing XeLaTeX from the engine list (next to the compile button on the TeXworks window) and then pressing the compile button. Compiling with LuaLaTeX is similar.
What’s the difference between LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX?
Invoking LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX just means invoking LuaTeX or XeTeX with LaTeX format. This post contains examples to be tried in both, but if you want to be persuaded to choose just one, see Why choose LuaLaTeX over XeLaTeX . Write the following LaTeX document: Save it as first-example.tex and make sure it is saved in UTF-8 encoding.
What to do with broken letters in LuaTeX?
According to my test, with XeLaTeX, broken letters are displayed as spaces, but with LuaLaTeX, broken letters are just gone. Now add the following line to the preamble and try again (we are specifying a font now): The produced output will have even less missing letters.
Is there a way to use LuaTeX in AUCTeX?
If you are using Emacs AUCTeX, start by setting the file local variable TeX-engine to luatex . The produced PDF output may have some missing letters. In particular, CJK texts are not displayed in the output.
Which is better LuaLaTeX or XeTeX handout?
To give LuaLaTeX a try, I recompiled an old short handout of mine in LuaLaTex, and they mostly looked exactly the same. Where they differed, however, XeLaTeX clearly gave the better results. Below are some examples I found in my handout:
Are there any Unicode support packages for latex?
A lot of the early multi-lingual support for LaTeX predates the widespread adoption of Unicode, although it looks like there’s been some consolidation around Unicode recently. So you might find something useful in specific language support packages, e.g. CJK LaTeX (for Chinese, Japanese and Korean).
Are there any adaptations of Tex for Unicode?
This is an adaptation of TeX that adds Unicode support, and is included in the latest TeX Live and MiKTeX distributions. This Wikipedia article gives a good introduction. Not only Unicode support (that was partially available as an ugly hack-job before) but proper modern font support as well.