From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30736 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Making context produce dvi file. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:05:47 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200609110805.47267.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157976604 32200 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 12:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 11 14:10:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMkbq-0003Wv-4L for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A371FCF3; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11451-06; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CD81FCE5; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801971FCE5 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11460-05-2 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A20341FCDE for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 69-175-76-40.chvlva.adelphia.net ([69.175.76.40]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060911120943.IVOB28624.mta11.adelphia.net@69-175-76-40.chvlva.adelphia.net> for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:09:43 -0400 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30736 Archived-At: For one recurring task I first produce a booklet version 5.5. x 8.5in, then a straight pdf 8.5 x 11in, all controlled by modes. The third format is plain text. Others recommend dvi2tty for this conversion. But how do I get Context to produce a dvi file? The Context manual does not make this clear. I am on a Linux system. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com