[tex-live] TeX-Live 2016, LuaLaTeX and engine detection

[Andy Thomas]

I tested it on two Macs and they show the same behavior. Is it Mac specific?

> On 25 Apr 2016, at 19:48, Andy Thomas <andythomas at web.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the engine detection is not working with LuaLaTeX and, e.g., the geometry package as well as the microtype package. An MWE would be:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage[verbose]{geometry}
> 
> \begin{document}
> Test
> \end{document}
> 
> At TL2016 it shows in the log: *geometry* detected driver: dvips
> At TL2015 it is pdflatex.
> 
> This breaks microtype as well as geometry. For geometry it was mentioned before, but no reason was given (cp.: lualatex does not obey geometry). 
> 
> The detection schemes seem to be quite different in the geometry package (ifpdf.sty, ifluatex.sty) and microtype (check if \directlua is defined). At least they do to me.
> 
> -Andy
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