[tex-live] Luatex default format names and dvi/pdf modes
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Jun 30 09:52:29 CEST 2008
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This came from texlive:
>
> Karl Berry wrote:
>> I think Karl's intention was to have luatex produce DVI by
>> default and
>> three symbolic links to it, with pdfluatex loading the plain
>> format and
>> producing PDF,
>> Right. By analogy with tex/pdftex and latex/pdflatex. However, if the
>> LuaTeX crew prefers something like luatex/dviluatex, I won't insist,
>> though I think the latter would be surprising to many people.
>>
>> We won't ever be able to change it again, so now is the time ...
>
> I personally do not care about the names of the plain & latex formats.
> CC to Hans and Hartmut just in case, but I do not expect they will have
> strong feelings on the subject either.
i'd say
luatex -> plain + dvi
pdfluatex -> plain + pdf
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