On 2010-06-05 18:42:06 +0930, Pablo Rodríguez <oi...@web.de> said:

Which will be those differences between podTeX and LuaTeX?

I can't remember where it's talked about, but I think the relevant details are that there are minor incompatibilities in kerning and hyphenation and justification when typesetting paragraphs. Basically, on any arbitrarily large pdfTeX document, you can't guarantee you'll get the same output when typeset with LuaTeX. (As a change in hyphenation can change a single line break, which can change a page break, which can change a chapter break...)

Of course, there's also some differences in extended funtionality, such as the pdfTeX primitives that are only available with Lua in LuaTeX, but Heiko Oberdiek's pdftexcmds provides a unified interface to this (and to the relevant XeTeX primitives as well).

Certainly nothing to worry about (especially because hyphenation patterns aren't as constant in the TeX world as TeX itelf), but necessary to be aware of.

Cheers,
Will



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