From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30772 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Making context produce dvi file. Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4506EDE6.5010306@wxs.nl> References: 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 1158082058 21851 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2006 17:27:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 12 19:27:37 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 1GNC2X-0001bb-NT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4631F1FCAA; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:17 +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 08741-01-4; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421DD1FB4E; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3811FB4E for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:08 +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 08741-01-3 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:05 +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 4623E1FB0B for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 6771 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:27:05 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: 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:30772 Archived-At: 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 > > `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' > --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1. > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------