diff --git a/moderndive_book.Rproj b/moderndive_book.Rproj
index 4aa775a89..fd31270b7 100644
--- a/moderndive_book.Rproj
+++ b/moderndive_book.Rproj
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ NumSpacesForTab: 2
 Encoding: UTF-8
 
 RnwWeave: knitr
-LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+LaTeX: XeLaTeX
 
 AutoAppendNewline: Yes
 StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes