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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:
Which is better Xe La Tex or Lua La Tex?
In my personal opinion (i.e. from anecdotal situations I’ve encountered), lua (la)tex looks indeed a little less stable than xe (la)tex, in particular when it comes to some advanced font features ( fontspec was after all developed for xe (la)tex first).
Why do you use LuaTeX instead of XeTeX?
Another advantage of LuaTeX over XeTeX is that LuaTeX uses the PDF engine of pdfTeX, while XeTeX uses its own one. One consequence of this is, that all features of the PGF graphics package (on which TikZ builds) should be available also under LuaTeX, while some features are definitely not available under XeTeX.
Why do I use XeLaTeX instead of morewrites?
The largest issue with morewrites (i.e. under XeLaTeX) is the performance of your drive, since you have to open and close files constantly you get a large performance penalty (i.e. waiting for IO). If you are using a machine controlled by the department’s IT division you might also have anti-virus and similar scanning all the file reads (!).
How is XeLaTeX on top of a modified TeX engine?
XeLaTeX is LaTeX on top of a modified TeX engine for added Unicode and OpenType support Learn more… I’m working on a couple of latex templates that belong together (letter, article, report). I’ve achieved nearly all my objectives except for a single one, having the font size change using the \\…
Why do you use LuaTeX instead of XeLaTeX?
LuaTeX including METAPOST as mplib is a huge advantage (this allows one to directly use MP code w/o the overhead and need to pause typesetting, run a separate process and then load the created file) — looking forward to LuaTeX maturing past the difficulties noted in the question.
Is it possible to create footers like above In XeLaTeX?
I have a basic report in Rmarkdown — output: pdf_document: latex_engine: xelatex geometry: left=2cm,right=1cm,top=1cm,bottom=0cm fontsize: 12pt params: A: test B: test2 C: test3 Is it possible to create footers like above in xelatex? on the first page the number to be aligned on the right and on the second page on the left side.