[tex-live] Luatex default format names and dvi/pdf modes

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Jul 2 07:46:59 CEST 2008


Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>>     luatex    -> plain + dvi
>>     pdfluatex -> plain + pdf
>>
>> Good.  That is what we have now.
> 
> ok, thanks to All for clarification! (from the beginning somehow i had
> luatex == pdftex++ in mind)

even if luatex can be seen as pdftex++, it will never have the name 
pdftex because there are fundamental (and incompatible) changes
compared to pdftex itself

Hans

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