Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 21/11/2022 à 22:10, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
development a écrit :
> > And whether we can just *require* LuaTeX and stop looking for pdfTeX
> > and XeTeX altogether?
> I did a few measurements for the case of building the LilyPond
> documentation and, in terms of speed with the "CI configuration" (no
> extractpdfmark and using the Ghostscript API), LuaTeX seems to position
> itself between pdfTeX, which remains the fastest, and XeTeX. So at
> least in my opinion, this would be a viable path and we could just
> always build with LuaTeX.



Interesting. Do you still have the precise timings around?

I tried doing a speed test myself, but hit
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1714#note_1180441076

Assuming that

a) the failure above can be fixed
b) speed is acceptable
c) the locale problems can be sorted out (I haven't fully
   understood them yet)

then I would be very happy to use LuaTeX exclusively.

Jean

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