Re: "Simple" TeX problem

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>]

I will signal this "bug" to the MiKTeX developer.

Giuseppe Bilotta

----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it>
Cc: NTG-ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: "Simple" TeX problem

> At 03:51 PM 10/8/00 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >>
> >> Btw, You can add a "TeXPassString" entry to the texexec.ini miktex
> >section,
> >> if you want.
> >>
> >
> >What about the fact that "--src" should only be passed when producing
DVIs,
> >and not when using PDFs? Is there a way to configure this too? (--src in
PDF
> >mode produces a lot of unharmfull but annoying "Non-PDF special ignored"
> >...)
>
> selective key would make texexec quite complicated
>
> when i run
>
>   texexec --pdf --passon="--src-specials" test
>
> here, i don't get those messages, so it more looks like a miktex bug to
me.
> Especially since those specials are not inserted by the \special
primitive,
> but by (in this case probably miktex specific) program calls to tex's
> internal procs.
>
> I wonder what happens if you say:
>
>   \def\special#1{\message{primitive special calles with: #1}}
>
> This is a very effective way to show specials.
>
> Hans
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