I seond the previous arguments for switching to lualatex rather than xetex : the former is *officially* the heir apparent to pdftex, while the latter is bound to become an historical, then unmaintained, then paleontological piece of software…
And, yes, supporting Unicode is a necessity. Unless you insist on ressurecting the horrors of codepages or EBCDIC… Of note : using TeXLive setup, I noticed that the most important slowdown of lualatex seems to originate in the *first* use of a given font in a given document : lualatex seems to compile a file of font metrics, which is lengthy, but is re-used in following recompilations. This compilation is especially long for math fonts, which have a few *thousands* of glyphs/symbols (rather than a mere *hundreds* for a vanilla alphabetic font. And don’t get me sarted on *hanzi* or *kanji* fonts…). ISTR that this “font metrics caching” can be directed to be shared for a whole directory, subtree or even globally, bu, my head on the billot, I couldn’t remember how… Maybe Doris migh be more helpful ? Le jeudi 14 décembre 2023 à 10:18:41 UTC+1, Kwankyu Lee a écrit : > Hi, > > The PR > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36861 > > aims at switching from pdflatex to xelatex the latex engine to render > objects in pdf using the command like "view(objects)" as well as in > building the sage documentation. > > As xelatex natively supports Unicode, we removed lots of commands like > > \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03B1}{\ensuremath{\alpha}} > > which were needed to support Unicode in pdflatex. > > We worry that some Unicode functionality was lost in this process, and so > we invite Unicode users to test with the PR. > > Here is the Binder link to where you can play around with xelatex-enabled > sage: > > https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/kwankyu/sage/use-xelatex-by-default-binder > > or you should build sage with the PR. > > If you find some Unicode-related defect not existent in sage 10.2, please > report it to the PR. > > Thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/1e479f40-3694-47fa-b948-26a8c26abd31n%40googlegroups.com.
