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Date:         Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0100
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From: Arno Trautmann <Arno.Trautmann@GMX.DE>
Subject: Re: LaTeX3 and engines
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Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:26:38PM +0000, Joseph Wright wrote:
>> On 01/01/2011 20:18, TeXWorld wrote:
>>> Thank you Joseph.
>>>
>>> Have the LaTeX3 team ever thought of making LaTeX3 only work with Lua=
TeX
>>> and XeTeX ? Why ? To integrate directly into the format fontspec
>>> functionnalities for instance.
>>
>> We have not started on fonts for LaTeX3 yet, but to cut out pdfTeX
>> would be a pretty extreme move.
>=20
> Just wondering, what benefit pdftex have over luatex (with the later
> being an extension of the former),

Currently: speed. luaTeX is quite slow compared to pdfTeX. (A
non-representative test gave me about a factor of 3 for a simple document=
)
But I still hope that there will be a boost in speed =E2=80=A6

> or is it about people who are not
> willing/can't switch to new engine? Do we expect such people to be
> welling/able to switch to latex3 either?

That's what I alway say =E2=80=A6 With LaTeX3, nobody can (and will) clai=
m
backwards compatibility on machine level.

cheers
Arno


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