Re: special infestation of Omega
David Kastrup <[email protected]>
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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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum