Re: [RFC] latex preview and pdflatex-only packages

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> writes:

> More general: Out there are quite some package that support only one
> of the current engines xelatex, lualatex, or pdflatex. My gut feeling
> is, that the majority works with any engine and more and more packages
> tend to support the more modern engines xelatex and lualatex, while
> dropping support for pdflatex.

Not sure here. Simply because some major publishers still hold on
pdflatex. Or do you have other information?

> Therefore, independently of any defaults set by Org, there will be
> situation in which users have to explicitly configure a different
> engine.

That might be true, yes.

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