Re: MkIV and DVI output

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

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > is it possible to produce DVI files with Mark IV.
>  >
>  > I tried a simple file like
>  >
>  > \starttext
>  > text
>  > \stoptext
>  >
>  > with the command texexec --lua --backend=dvipdfm filename
>
>  no, at quite some places i've hardcoded a pdftex backend
>
>  at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes
>  sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats

Hello Wolfgang (and others),

I don't know if anyone has noticed it, but XeTeX "doesn't support" dvi
format either. It can create some intermediate format (xdv), but it's
rather useless - I don't know any software that can work with it. And
even if LuaTeX would support dvi, you still need to write support for
fonts in DVI previewers. (DVI=DeVice Independent - something that
would definitely not be true any more with OpenType fonts; or rather -
is not even true any more at this moment with dozens of PS specials)

Mojca
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