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14 Sep
2006
14 Sep
'06
4:03 p.m.
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.