Re: Making context produce dvi file.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 9/11/06, John R. Culleton wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 11 September 2006 11:21, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>     
>>> Mari Voipio wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> But how do I get Context to produce a dvi file?
>>>>>           
>>> texexec --dvips yourfile
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>       
>> Thanks!
>> That works after excising some grqphics. Just as a matter of
>> curiosity, why is the parameter --dvips and not dvi?
>>     
>
> Simple explanation: because it generates a PostScript file as well ;)
>
> But I'm supporting you in that question. I would also prefer to have a
> switch --dvi which would skip the "dvips" postprocessing part.
>   
--nobackend

beware: there is no 'dvi' as such, there is alwasy backend specific code 
involved
> And an answer to those who were wondering if ConTeXt doesn't produce
> dvi by default. Yes, it did once. And still does if you're using the
> old perl script "texexec.pl" which is becomming more and more
> deprecated (and not supported any more anyway).
>  
>   
Hans 

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