Re: "Simple" TeX problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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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