Re: [NTG-pdftex] cmd line arguments

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"Hans" == Hans Hagen writes:

sure but installation of perl (ruby. puthon) is trivial under windows

Some hours ago Staszek said that TL provides Perl. So my assumption was wrong.

ah, cygwin ... i never use that (i only copied the ssh -related- things to a special path); nowadays most tools are available as native windows binaries

Cygwin also provides an X11 server, hence programs like xpdf work. It's really cool. When you start cygwin, a shell window appears. Simply type `startx' and you get an XTerm. You can run any X11 application then. Before I installed cygwin I had not been aware that I can use teTeX under Windows. And I compiled GNU octave under cygwin without any problems while this is impossible under SuSE because they do not provide a Fortran compiler any more. Is't worth a try, disk space has never been so cheap as today. However, maybe you prefer the Windows GUI, but I'm very unhappy if I don't have emacs and bash and have to use programs which are compiled without libreadline.

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Yes, but it would be good if we could convince tex (the program) not to complain so loudly if there is an option it doesn't know.

sure; the problem is -as always- in compatibility but i think that we should not be too afraid to change those interface aspects and i always wondered why tex complained about that - it does not hurt to ignore unknown options

(well, we can always make complaining an option itself, configurable in the cnf file, off by default)

Sounds good. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------