Bug#373931: dvi output does not work
Manuel.Yguel@inrialpes.fr wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: testing
>
> when I invoke latex -output-format dvi toto.tex as explained in the manual page,
> pdfetex still try to produce a pdf document.
>
> the file is toto.tex:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \title{Cartesian closed categories and the price of eggs}
> \author{Jane Doe}
> \date{September 1994}
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> Hello world!
> \end{document}
>
> and the command produces a toto.pdf !
This is strange. Here it results in a dvi file, regardless of whether I
call latex with or without the "-output-format dvi" option. Only with
"-output-format pdf", a PDF file is produced.
> Moreover elatex is not available in this version.
It is; even in sarge latex always uses e-TeX, because this is what the
LaTeX Team asked for. There's simply no difference between latex and
elatex, and therefore the elatex symlink and format names have been
dropped.
> So it is impossible to produce dvi file and use psfrag for example with this
> version of the package.
The psfrag thing must be a different issue. Let's look at the dvi
problem first. Can you please add the command
\listfiles
as the first line of your document (before \documentclass), process it
again, and send us the logfile? Furthermore, please send us the output
of
which latex
kpsewhich latex.fmt
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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