Re: [NTG-context] Making context produce dvi file.

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.