Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> writes:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> > I thought about disabling the xetex checkbox if xetex is not found.
>> > But I came to the conclusing that one should nevertheless be able to
>> > edit or produce a xetex-enabled file. What is missing is probably a
>> > warning, similar to the warning if LaTeX is not found.
>>
>> My question was rather: if I have a xetex document, can II uncheck the
>> xetex checkbox and still typeset it, or will there be elements in my
>> document that will make it uncompilable?
>
> It will compile (but you will loose the font settings; those will be reset to 
> "default").

So basically xetex should be only a new output format like pdflatex is.
I do not think it is a good idea to make it such a special case that
does not fit in our existing categories...

What do you have in mind besides the font selection?

JMarc

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