Bug#470595: geometry package doesn't work with cslatex

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 13.03.08 Anton Khirnov (wyskas@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi,

> OK, the problem looks like this:
> 
> wiskas@zohar:~$ cat test.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{geometry}
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}
> wiskas@zohar:~$ cslatex test.tex
<snip>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \Gm@checkdrivers ...fined \else \ifnum \pdfoutput
>                                                   =\@ne \Gm@setdriver {pdfte...
> 
But it works with pdflatex. /usr/bin/cslatex is a soft link pointing
to /usr/bin/pdftex, so it must have something to do with the format
file used by cslatex. cslatex.ini contains some code to redefine(?)
\pdfoutput, so it could be a bug in cslatex too.

Is there a special reason, why you use cslatex instead of latex?

> wiskas@zohar:~$ pdftex test.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \documentclass
>                   {article}
> 
This will never work. plain TeX won't be able to process LaTeX file.
Use pdflatex here.

> And as I said, I don't know what this patch does, I just happened
> to find it and it worked.
> 
It seems to change the way how geometry detects if pdftex is in use.

Hilmar
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