Re: MkIV and DVI output

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > is it possible to produce DVI files with Mark IV.
> >  >
> >  > I tried a simple file like
> >  >
> >  > \starttext
> >  > text
> >  > \stoptext
> >  >
> >  > with the command texexec --lua --backend=dvipdfm filename
> >
> >  no, at quite some places i've hardcoded a pdftex backend
> >
> >  at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes
> >  sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats
>
> Hello Wolfgang (and others),
>
> I don't know if anyone has noticed it, but XeTeX "doesn't support" dvi
> format either. It can create some intermediate format (xdv), but it's
> rather useless - I don't know any software that can work with it. And
> even if LuaTeX would support dvi, you still need to write support for
> fonts in DVI previewers. (DVI=DeVice Independent - something that
> would definitely not be true any more with OpenType fonts; or rather -
> is not even true any more at this moment with dozens of PS specials)

Hi Mojca,

I know xdv is only a intermediate format in XeTeX and xdv2pdf and
xdvipdfmx are able to convert it into PDF format. I used always only the
pdftex backend for ConTeXt and used dvi only to play with a few macro
files where I needed it because they used PostScript to draw lines ...

I have also no dvi viewer on my system and I'm inable to take a look
at the output in dvi format.

I tried to play only a little bit with MkIV and dvi but I never wanted to
use it in real live, I tried only something what is at the moment only
possible with dvi output.

Wolfgang
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