From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30755 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Making context produce dvi file. Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:31 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00609111214w33607f97v6878d431251fbef6@mail.gmail.com> References: <200609110805.47267.john@wexfordpress.com> <45057F14.5030203@wxs.nl> <200609111406.28440.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 1158002198 32592 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 19:16:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 11 21:16:37 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 1GMrGb-0006Nz-DK for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86BE1FE03; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:16:24 +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 15042-02; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39231FDF3; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E4E1FDED for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:43 +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 12456-01-3 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id EB59E1FDE5 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:14:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s12so1680238wxc for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.52.18 with SMTP id z18mr1899164agz; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.94.17 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <200609111406.28440.john@wexfordpress.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:30755 Archived-At: 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