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