[luatex] LuaTeX file almost 2.5x bigger

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 07/25/2010 06:37 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
> So it seems that XeTeX is more efficient in positioning text, but I
> am not going to judge which is better, as I have no understanding of
> the background mechanism.

This is a side effect of the font expansion technology, enabled by
the microtype package. To get a smaller lualatex file size, you can
disable that package (at the expense of some typesetting quality).

Best wishes,
Taco