@AndrewCashner I tried allegreya, but I can't figure out what font family to tell it to switch to. Also, if I just put allegreya in as a package, it displays fine, but then won't print properly. :-( I get gibberish...
This MWE works:
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc}
\makeatletter
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\makeatother
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
Here is some plain text in Garamond
\en...
[Please correct me if my statements are wrong]
TL;DR: pdftex, xetex and luatex exhibit different behaviour. What are these differences and why are they present.
I know of three engines, which implement TeX and support native PDF output: pdftex, xetex and luatex. Unfortunately they are not com...
@FaheemMitha also most journal submissions will only accept pdftex and not xetex based documents currently, so it depends what you do with your latex documents.
I notice a big difference in xelatex is that it can handle unicode input. I guess that could be very useful, depending on what language is being written.