Re: [2.96.1] problem: latex generates pdf rather than dvi

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:27:07AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [broken documents]
> >     > Here, adding a simple \usepackage{dvi} is a possible work-around
> >     > that David Kastrup has suggested.
> >
> > Yes, but I suppose that most problems come from macro packages.  They
> > have to be fixed anyway.  As far as the documents are cocerned, it is
> > not much more work to fix the bugs than to add \usepackage{dvi}.
> 
> Oh yes, it is.

Agreed.

> It's even easier to say "dvilatex" or "latex --dvionly".

Yes.  If one is to replace tex with pdftex, then (at least for plain tex),
you're almost required to have \pdf* control sequences turned off, aren't
you?  At any rate, it would be a better fix for pdftex to have a --dvionly
or --nopdf option that would be run when creating {la,ams,}tex.fmt but not
pdf{la,ams,}tex.fmt.

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Paul Vojta, [email protected]