Merge pull request #1687 from quarto-dev/pdf/lualatex-new-defaults

LuaLaTeX is the new default pdf engine

Author: cderv

docs/extensions/lua-api.qmd

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ For LaTeX output, you may need to additionally detect which citation utility and
 
 | Function | Description |
 |----------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
-| `quarto.doc.cite_method()` | Returns a string (`citeproc`, `natbib`, or `biblatex)` indicating the cite method in use. |
+| `quarto.doc.cite_method()` | Returns a string (`citeproc`, `natbib`, or `biblatex`) indicating the cite method in use. |
 | `quarto.doc.pdf_engine()` | Returns a string (`pdflatex`, `xelatex`, `lualatex`, or `tectonic`) indicating the PDF engine being used to render the document. |
 
 ### Includes

docs/output-formats/pdf-basics.qmd

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ See the Pandoc documentation on metadata [variables for LaTeX](https://pandoc.or
 
 ## Fonts
 
-Using `xelatex`, the default engine, or the `lualatex` engine, you can specify fonts with the YAML options:
+Using `lualatex`, the default engine, or the `xelatex` engine, you can specify fonts with the YAML options:
 
 | Option         | Document Element         |
 |----------------|--------------------------|
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ format:
 
 ## Unicode Characters
 
-By default, Quarto uses the `xelatex` engine to produce PDFs from LaTeX. `xelatex` has native support for unicode characters, but it is possible some customization will be required in order to properly typeset specific unicode characters. In particular, it is important that you use a font that supports the characters that you using in your document. To identify fonts on your system that support specific language characters, you can use the following command:
+By default, Quarto uses the `lualatex` engine to produce PDFs from LaTeX. `lualatex` has native support for unicode characters, but it is possible some customization will be required in order to properly typeset specific unicode characters. In particular, it is important that you use a font that supports the characters that you using in your document. To identify fonts on your system that support specific language characters, you can use the following command:
 
 ``` {.bash filename="Terminal"}
 fc-list :lang=<lang> family

docs/output-formats/pdf-engine.qmd

@@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ You can use the `pdf-engine` and `pdf-engine-opts` to control the PDF engine tha
 
 ``` yaml
 title: "My Document"
-pdf-engine: lualatex
+pdf-engine: xelatex
 pdf-engine-opts:
   - '--no-shell-escape'
   - '--halt-on-error'
 ```
 
-The above example will use the `lualatex` PDF engine with some specific options, rather than the default `xelatex`.
+The above example will use the `xelatex` PDF engine with some specific options, rather than the default `lualatex`.
 
 ## Latexmk