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

["Anton Khirnov" <wyskas@gmail.com>]

I though that cslatex was needed to compile documents with
\usepackage{czech}. However I've discovered, that it's better to use
\usepackage[czech]{babel}, which can be compiled with latex.

But anyway, I think this is still a bug that can bother some people.

Anton Khirnov

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> 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
>  --
>  sigmentation fault
>