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Abandon LaTeX2e for LaTeX3 or LuaTeX
I think my question is: Should I abandon pdflatex, possibly for xetex or context, and a TeX/LaTeX based macro writing approach, possibly for a LuaTeX or LaTeX3 based approach?
Possibly relevant to ...
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LaTeX3 versus pure Lua
Reading this site for the last nearly two years I've learned a lot about LaTeX3 (which I had previously understood to be a defunct pipe dream) and LuaTeX (of which I was previously totally unaware). ...
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Why do I need Lua or LaTeX3 in a plain old technical document?
I wrote and maintain a couple hundred page computer related technical spec in XeLaTeX. I use tables, figures, bitfields, algorithms and other typical trappings. I'm intrigued by LuaTeX and LaTeX3, ...
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Will LaTeX3 have proper support for hooks? Does LuaTeX?
Tex has powerful support for extensions triggered by events happen in generating output, by running one of six token lists appropriately:
\everycr \everydisplay \everyhbox \everymath \everypar ...
