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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:31:04 +0200
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> I understood, you have Python on a platform and starting
> from this you wish to create pdf files.
> Obviously, embedding "TeX" is practically a no solution,
> although distibuting a portable standalone TeX distribution
> is a perfectly viable solution, especially on Windows!
>
> To "I wanted to learn TeX anyway.":
> I can only warmly recommend to start with one of the two
> unicode compliant engines, LuaTeX or XeTeX.
All right. Which one is the better? :-) I'm totally a beginner. I would 
also like to use mathematical expressions but I guess they are both 
capable of that. Another requirement would be: easy installation under 
unix and windows, good multilingual support.