From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30743 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Making context produce dvi file. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:21:56 +0200 Message-ID: <45057F14.5030203@wxs.nl> References: <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 1157988166 12120 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 15:22:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 11 17:22:41 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 1GMnbv-00054M-Rr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:22:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA651FCDE; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:22:11 +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 26740-03-3; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9721FCE5; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01921FCE5 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:22:00 +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 26740-03-2 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:21:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1149E1FCDE for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:21:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 6571 for multiple; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:21:56 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: Mari Voipio , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:30743 Archived-At: Mari Voipio wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > >> But how do I get Context to produce a dvi file? >> > > If I recall correctly from my time with TeXLive, dvi is the 'native' > format of ConTeXt, which was less than handy with Windows.... > i.e. you normally get dvi by *not* telling ConTeXt to make ps/pdf. (See > beginner manual p. 6, second paragraph.) > > However, the systems have changed over the last couple of years and for > example I now run the stand-alone WinConText that pdfs everything, whether > I want it or not (I do, so it doesn't bother me), so this is not so > self-evident any more. From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First_Document I > understand that most ConTeXt configurations now produce pdfs by default. > > On Linux you might be able to find the place where your \setupoutput[pdf] > or texexec --pdf sits, if it's in a configuration file. > On the other hand, I dug a bit into my stand-alone Windows distribution > and didn't get any smarter by that. Now I know why my pdf opens > automatically into Acrobat, but not how *not* to produce pdf (or ps). > > > > That was a very good question. :-) > > > Mari > (...three years with ConTeXt and I sound like a dinosaur...) > texexec --dvips yourfile Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------