Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > So basically xetex should be only a new output format like pdflatex is. > > I do not see how this should work, especially wrt the font selection (which > is actually the main reason for people to use XeTeX, AFAICS).
Also, note that there is a huge difference between latex/pdflatex and latex/xetex, because in the latter case, a different source file (with differing syntax) is needed, while latex/pdflatex are basically two different compilers that compile the same source. The same will apply to luatex (and context, of course). Jürgen