Writing a book in LaTeX in 2023: Difference between revisions
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* XeTeX is slow compared to pdflatex (not a serious option imho). LuaTeX is slow compared to anything. | * XeTeX is slow compared to pdflatex (not a serious option imho). LuaTeX is slow compared to anything. | ||
** I have my chapters broken up into different files, but I don't like working with single-chapter PDFs | ** I have my chapters broken up into different files, but I don't like working with single-chapter PDFs | ||
* | * I haven't yet been able to get the [https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfx?lang=en pdfx] package working in LuaTeX | ||
** Not a huge deal, as it turns out, due to PDFs being essentially unmarketable, see below | |||
there's one fundamental and much more serious problem, though: | there's one fundamental and much more serious problem, though: | ||
