On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to produce DVI files with Mark IV.
I tried a simple file like
\starttext text \stoptext
with the command texexec --lua --backend=dvipdfm filename
no, at quite some places i've hardcoded a pdftex backend
at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats
Hello Wolfgang (and others),
I don't know if anyone has noticed it, but XeTeX "doesn't support" dvi format either. It can create some intermediate format (xdv), but it's rather useless - I don't know any software that can work with it. And even if LuaTeX would support dvi, you still need to write support for fonts in DVI previewers. (DVI=DeVice Independent - something that would definitely not be true any more with OpenType fonts; or rather - is not even true any more at this moment with dozens of PS specials)
Hi Mojca, I know xdv is only a intermediate format in XeTeX and xdv2pdf and xdvipdfmx are able to convert it into PDF format. I used always only the pdftex backend for ConTeXt and used dvi only to play with a few macro files where I needed it because they used PostScript to draw lines ... I have also no dvi viewer on my system and I'm inable to take a look at the output in dvi format. I tried to play only a little bit with MkIV and dvi but I never wanted to use it in real live, I tried only something what is at the moment only possible with dvi output. Wolfgang