Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> writes:

> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> > So basically xetex should be only a new output format like pdflatex is.
>>
>> I do not see how this should work, especially wrt the font selection (which
>> is actually the main reason for people to use XeTeX, AFAICS).
>
> Also, note that there is a huge difference between latex/pdflatex and 
> latex/xetex, because in the latter case, a different source file (with 
> differing syntax) is needed, while latex/pdflatex are basically two different 
> compilers that compile the same source.

Could you point me to a place where the different syntax is described?
This is still LaTeX with a couple more macros, right?

Could you change the combox to something less cryptic that 'Use xetex'?
Hmm, looking for it... where is it? I swear I saw it once!

> The same will apply to luatex (and context, of course).

Context has nothing to do with LaTeX. luatex is just tex+scripting, not
a macro language (or is it?)

JMarc

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