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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine by wolfi1 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:18AM (#14450890)
why does it use xdvipdfmx? xetex would output pdf as well, doesn't it?
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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine by pkgwilliams on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @08:04AM (#14451791)
XeTeX accomplishes PDF output by piping through xdvipdfmx in the background, so it's the same process.
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