On 2011-03-14 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > xetex: > > + system fonts are easily accessible > > - no protrusion, no font expansion > > I never tried to use them, but I thought that Han The Thanh [please > add the accents] added that to XeTeX semi-recently > (http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/, the last comment 8 > months ago: "merged microtype branch to trunk").
I don't follow xetex development any more, so my information was outdated. Thanks for the correction. > > luatex: > > + protrusion, font expansion, easy access of system fonts, scripting > > language included, fast with mplib > > - in general much slower > > ... depending on whether "in general" includes metapost or not. A > speed factor of ten (faster) is nothing unusual for luatex when many > metapost graphics come into play. I totally agree. But Cecil mentioned in another thread: »My document is mostly text.« Even if a few mp graphics are involved luatex is still noticeably slower. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
