Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
So dvipos belongs in TL and in the Debian packages, or else ConTeXt will crash when it makes dvi files with figures.
positions to be more precise ... i still need to adapt context to support the now available pos in pdftex dvi mode but even then i need to make surethat xetex works too ... i'll look into it (probably not before the tex collection is frozen);
Also, as I mentioned in another email (I think to ntg-context), ConTeXt needs to parse dvipos's scaled-points output. But that change is not specific to TL. Or dvipos should be changed to produce coordinates in pt (and label them). However, that change may break other users (are there any?) of dvipos.
well, a solution could be to add a switch --unit= ; maybe taco can make a patch; normally Choff is very responsive to such things; an alternative is that i adapt the dvi driver part a bit (no time now, maybe later) ; i adapted this stuff a bit when i made the mkiv code (which permits me to keep track of milions of positions with hardy any overhead -- also, much aux file stuff is already moved to lua tables then) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------