Re: Making context produce dvi file.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>>>> texexec --dvips yourfile
>>>>         
>>> That works after excising some grqphics. Just as a matter of
>>> curiosity, why is the parameter --dvips and not dvi? 
>>>       
>> because one can also say -dvipdfmx
>>     
>
> Trying a few tests here (TeXExec 6.2.0): 'texexec --dvi' seems
> equivalent to running 'texexec --dvips'.
>
> And, a small point of disagreement with the old man entry for texexec:
> 'texexec --output=dvi' produces pdf.
>
>   
line 116 in tex.rb in the ruby base path can be adapted:

    ['dvips','ps','dvi']                          .each do |b| 
@@backends[b]   = 'dvips'     end

untested

> -Sanjoy
>
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