Jürgen writes: >Am 03.04.25 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Ihor Radchenko: >>> I don't agree. Users who are apparently happy with LuaLaTeX should >>> have no problems with pdflatex and UTF8. >> If you know an easy and universal way to support UTF8 is pdflatex, >> please do share. > > I am sorry I could not read all the discussion up to here, but you might > like to take a look at this discussion that took place on several TUG > mailing lists whe TeX Live 2025 was published over the last weeks as to > whether to use pdftex, luatex, or xetex as the default engine. It turns > out that only luatex is capable of producing accessible pdf, next comes > pdftex, "albeit with some restrictions", and xetex falls short of this > feature. So most probably only luatex will be used in the long run, as > accessibility will be required for most publications, at least for > scientific papers. This is not only a ITF-8 issue. I'm surprised TeX > Live is said not to work properly out of the box on some Linux > distributions, hard to believe it's true. Please check again and report > to the appropriate tracker in case it really does not work on your system. > > https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2025-March/051258.html
> Regards, > Jürgen. Hi Jürgen, thanks a lot for the pointers and for sniffing the LaTeX mailing lists. There is so much going on, that it is impossible to follow everything. >From the message I gather that accessible documents is the main target for the TeX people (which is more than reasonable) and that speed is only secondary. Now the question seems to be whether latex-preview could "live an independent life" with pdflatex at the heart of it's tooling, whereas document production could "move on" to use lualatex as the default tool to generate the PDFs. I may be overoptimistic in thinking that pdflatex and lualatex have still a long way together, whereas xetex seems to be fading away. Am I alone in this? /PA -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Sagen's Paradeiser, write BE! Year 1 of the New Koprocracy
