Re: Making context produce dvi file.

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

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.

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).

The new texexec ("texmfstart texexec.rb") should produce pdf by
default, but it's mostly fault of (old) distributions, not your fault
if you're still using the old scripts (you can influence that
behaviour though). As far as I know only MikTeX 2.5 and Hans's
standalone distros support that by default. tetex and Mac users still
have to fix that by themselves if they want to switch to the usage of
new ruby scripts.

Mojca