On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:08:28PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 18 May 2016, at 2:55 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:32:33AM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> >> Am Mon, 16 May 2016 20:07:49 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> >> 
> >>> If we use the new syntax of
> >>> 
> >>> \pageheight\paperheight
> >>> \pagewidth\paperwidth
> >> 
> >> Why don't you do as David suggest and load the luatex85 package?
> > 
> > Because the package is quite new and many LyX users do not have it. One
> > possibility is to use the package if it is available and not use it if
> > it is not (without changing any of the other code exported by LyX). Do
> > you think this would lead to good results for users? Specifically, do
> > you think a significant amount of users (imagine a diverse mix of
> > Mac/Win/Linux) would have LaTeX installations with "new luatex" but
> > without the luatex85 package available? My guess is that it is not that
> > common. Let's add on the further condition that a user of LyX actually
> > *uses* LuaTeX.
> 
> It should be fine to have something like
> 
>     \IfFileExists{luatex85.sty}{\usepackage{luatex85}}{}
> 
> for the time being. This should catch 99.999% of users?
 
Sounds good to me. I think this is a good strategy.

Thanks,

Scott

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