Re: special infestation of Omega

David Kastrup <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>> I don't know much about dvipng, but these specials are handled by
>> odvips. Perhaps there should either come an odvipng, or dvipng should be
>> patched to safely ignore the specials.
>
> I know quite a bit about dvipng. Nothing strange happens, except the
> warning.

You forgot about -picky.  preview-latex runs everything through
dvips/GhostScript because of that.  Hmmm, probably should make that
odvips after the merge...

>> > dvipng warning: at (0,0) unimplemented \special{om:col=21;}.
>> > [2dvipng warning: at (0,20) unimplemented \special{om:lines="circutf.tex",57;}.
> <...>
>> > Uh, is this Omega version that plasters the dvi file with unrequested
>> > specials a good idea?  On the other hand, Aleph exists, too, so maybe
>> > there is not much harm done here...
>
> I take it there is some deep reason for the specials being there in
> the first place? What do they do, give source position? 

Very much looks like it.

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