From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Making context produce dvi file.
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:03:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GNzIy-0002xQ-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:55:16 +0200." <4509A594.4050503@wxs.nl>
Hans Hagen wrote:
> texexec --dvi test --nobackend
That works. As another test, using --output=dvi instead of --dvi
produces pdf even with --nobackend.
Just to be thorough, or difficult, I also tried
texexec test --nobackend
where pdftex is both front- and backend. It did the right thing (ran
pdftex anyway and produced pdf).
> --nobackend
Thanks, that switch was news to me.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-14 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 12:05 John R. Culleton
2006-09-11 13:14 ` luigi scarso
2006-09-11 14:58 ` Willi Egger
2006-09-11 14:11 ` Mari Voipio
2006-09-11 15:21 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-11 18:06 ` John R. Culleton
2006-09-11 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-11 21:37 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-12 17:27 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-14 13:28 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-14 18:55 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-14 22:03 ` Sanjoy Mahajan [this message]
2006-09-11 19:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-09-12 7:18 ` Hans Hagen
2006-09-11 16:32 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-09-11 19:34 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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