On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:06 AM, leonid baranov <leonidbaran...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4. > Given (1,2,3), what would be a compelling reason to prefer > the Tex-fonts + pdfLatex over XeTeX/LuaTeX? > Several thoughts: - XeTeX typesetting is in my experience inferior to pdflatex typesetting - For multilingual documents, TeX fonts encodings may quickly become a nightmare. XeTeX/LuaTeX plays much nicer since they're natively unicode - I'm not sure what's the status of XeTeX/LuaTeX "babel" equivalent (polyglossia, I think). Last time I tried I couldn't get it to work - pdflatex is stable and has be around for ages, while XeTeX/LuaTeX are quite new and may still be evolving - Most TeX fonts available in LyX are high-quality, while with XeTeX/LuaTeX you're free to choose as ugly a font as you will (tip: try Comic Sans)
So it all really boils down to a trade-off, and a choice of what works fine for you. Liviu
