Styling suggestions: LuaTeX and fonts

[venkatasg]

These are stylistic suggestions for the new COLM template — since the template seems to be designed without being encumbered by other aging templates, is there a reason to not adopt the following:

• LuaTeX over pdfTeX which would enable full Unicode support
• A better font than Palatino. This is personal preference, but Charter is a good font, which has great coverage, math symbols, and Charis SIL, which has comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, is also based on Charter.

These are just suggestions of course, and not primarily important towards organizing the conference. I'm just excited to have a conference template which can be aesthetically pleasing and accessible with good design, rather than one that just uses Times New Roman and pdfTeX for no reason other than tradition.

[davidweichiang]

arXiv won’t take LuaTeX, unless they’ve changed their policy (which would be great).