[texhax] Please help recognize font

Philip Taylor P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Jul 2 22:28:44 CEST 2018



Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> [...]
>
> LuaTeX requires that luaotfload is loaded.  It's supposed to work with
> both, LaTeX and plain TeX.  XeTeX supports OTF fonts natively but
> without a Lua engine under the hood it is less flexible.
Agreed. But is it not also the case that XeTeX is far closer to TeX in terms of behaviour -- i.e., most TeX sources will set identically with XeTeX, but rather fewer with LuaTeX ?
Philip Taylor


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