Am 26.05.2013 02:24, schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
Good point. No, I do not think that would be good. I think that if
pdflatex fails, then a default format should definitely be set. If one
of the others fails, things are less clear. I think the best thing is
to choose a few. Currently we only test latex, pdflatex, and luatex.
That's why I've been focusing on those.
What about XeTeX? This is more mature than luaTeX. I recommend to skip the testing for luaTeX for
now, see below.
Concerning Hebrew and all RTL languages:
RtL languages don't work with luaTeX if babel is used. The alternative is to use polyglossia
(XeTeX's babel replacement) but then one need the luabidi package. This package was never officially
released and its last revision is from 2009. The latest polyglossia version nevertheless supports
luabidi as it seems the package is ready to be used. The problem is that luabidi is not on CTAN and
is therefore not part of any LaTeX installation by default and can also no be installed like other
packages.
So we can currently not support luaTeX support for RTL langages. Jürgen, please correct me when I am
wrong here.
That is what I meant with XeTeX is more mature. One of the development goals of XeTeX was to support
one day all writing systems on earth and it can indeed handle even exotic scripts like Coptic.
However, compiling the Hewbrew files with XeTeX works fine.
Yes, I will do this if we go this way. I think I've already done that for a few.
Thanks.
regards Uwe
