I generally agree with Pedro about making lualatex the default. Personally, I moved to it several years ago because of the weak, and unstable, support for unicode in pdflatex.
Note that Juan Manuel Macías posted here the following quote from Joseph Wright [1]: >> The time to move to LuaTeX for new LaTeX documents is here. <snip> > Source: > > https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/engine-news-from-the-latex-project That's my 2¢. Leo [1] https://list.orgmode.org/87r07ow94d....@posteo.net/ On Wed, Apr 02 2025, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> wrote: > To add an argument to moving forward to lualatex: > > https://github.com/max-heller/mdbook-pandoc/issues/94 > <https://github.com/max-heller/mdbook-pandoc/issues/94> > > Cheers, /PA > >> El 2 abr 2025, a las 8:17, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> >> escribió: >> >> Let’s start the discussion. We need feedback on this. >> >> Pros and Contras of moving on to using lualatex as default compiler. >> >> >>>> BTW, what about changing the default LaTeX compiler to lualatex in 9.8? >>> >>> I doubt that it is a good idea. >>> Mainly because we can break documents that were working in Org <9.8. >>> We can discuss it though, but better separately - discussions about >>> changing defaults tend to generate long threads that are difficult to >>> move forward. >> >> Pros: >> >> - better UTF-8 handling >> >> Contras: >> >> - people who do not need to customise `org-latex-compiler’ now would have to >> add >> >> (setq-default org-latex-compiler “pdflatex”) >> >> Or an equivalent in their org-mode configuration to keep the old behaviour. >> >> Speak out, please >> >> Best, /PA >> >> > -- --- Best regards, Dr Butler
