Re: teTeX 2 -> teTeX 3 help
- From: Jason Earl <jearl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:22:34 -0700
Kristo Kriechbaum <klk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded my machine from Fedora Core 3 to 4. This led to
> an upgrade from teTeX 2 to teTeX 3.
>
> Now for the life of me I can't figure out how to get a dvi file.
> "latex main.tex" will give me a pdf. I understand that pdf is now
> the default output. On my system, /usr/bin/latex is a link to
> /usr/bin/pdfetex.
>
> The weird thing is if I just try "pdfetex main.tex" I get an
> "undefined control sequence" error at the first line of main.tex. I
> can do "pdfetex -fmt latex main.tex" to get a pdf. The man page for
> pdfetex tells me I can use "-output-format dvi" to get a dvi file.
> This does not work.
>
> All I want is a dvi file. Is this a bug, or am I just missing
> something here?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Kristo
Do you have problems with *any* LaTeX file, or are you just trying
with one particular LaTeX file that you really need to get to work? I
had similar problems when Debian upgraded to teTeX 3 with a file that
was very important to me. I turned out that the problem was that I
was doing something like this:
\newif\ifpdf
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
\pdffalse
\else
\pdfoutput=1
\pdftrue
\fi
apparently \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined doesn't work anymore instead you
need to use ifpdf.sty.
I don't know if that will solve your problem, but it certainly solved
a similar problem that I had.
Jason
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