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I downgraded my tetex-bin package in stable version in order to produce my dvi
files.
Then I upgrade them again to produce the output you requiered, then I receive
the following message:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
---! /local_home/manuel/.texmf-var/web2c/latex.fmt was written by tex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
so, I remove all the .texmf-var directory and re-run latex and it works.
I am a bit confused, because it will be difficult to reproduce the problem.
So, if the problem occurs again on a other of the computers I monitor, I will
make the test you suggest.
Thanks,
Manuel
Quoting Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>:
> 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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