From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31555 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Two problems with current ruby scripts Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:30 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00610250627y71dc21abm99700f14bd7a20fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061025081906.GA13463@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <453F2569.5080805@wxs.nl> 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 1161782902 19308 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 13:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mike Bird Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 25 15:28:19 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 1GcinG-0006kH-1H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925D51FF06; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:40 +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 27508-01-11; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE151FF00; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4A81FF06 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:33 +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 27508-01-10 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.225]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C4D81FED9 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 32so1642106huf for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.82.126.19 with SMTP id y19mr129803buc; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.82.138.15 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <453F2569.5080805@wxs.nl> 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:31555 Archived-At: On 10/25/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> Command: texexec --output=dvips foo > >> Should produce: foo.dvi > >> Actually produces: foo.pdf > >> > hm, i need to check that, maybe there is no dvips option > >> Command: texexec --dvi foo > >> Should produce: foo.dvi > >> Actually produces: foo.dvi AND OVERWRITES foo.ps > >> > >> --Mike Bird > >> > that's because the backend is called as well (dvips) ; the latest > version has a --nobackend option But shouldn't "--dvi" produce only dvi (no dvips run afterwards) by default as was already suggested some time ago? I don't know how exactly "backends" and specials work, but why should the user bother about backends if he wants dvi output only? Mojca