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

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net> writes:

> There have been two lines of development in TeX lately. On the one hand
> there are packages that require features from the LaTeX3 kernel. This
> should not pose a problem because LaTeX3 will be installed on a recent
> TeX Live system. And then, there are packages that require a particular
> TeX engine.

This is all fine and expected. Users of alternative
xelatex/lualatex/pdflatex are expected to customize the latex engine
they need. Org mode defaults to pdflatex.

My concern is latex vs. pdflatex.
So far, Org mode worked under assumption that latex and pdflatex are
interchangeable. But pNiceArray proved us wrong (it does not work with
latex, only with pdflatex).

So, the idea is to replace the usage of latex in Org (by default) with
pdflatex. But that will only work in pdflatex is a strict superset of
latex and _all_ the packages that work with latex will also work with
pdflatex.

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