[tex-live] luatex defaults to dvi mode

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Sun Jun 29 16:08:31 CEST 2008


> plain luatex in TL-2008 by default produces dvi. Shouldn't it better
> start in pdf mode (as pdftex does)?

  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, lualatex loading the LaTeX format and producing DVI, and
pdflualatex loading the LaTeX format and producing PDF.

	Arthur


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