Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> So dvipos belongs in TL and in the Debian packages, or else ConTeXt
> will crash when it makes dvi files with figures.
>
positions to be more precise ... i still need to adapt context to
support the now available pos in pdftex dvi mode but even then i need to
make surethat xetex works too ...
i'll look into it (probably not before the tex collection is frozen);
> Also, as I mentioned in another email (I think to ntg-context),
> ConTeXt needs to parse dvipos's scaled-points output. But that change
> is not specific to TL. Or dvipos should be changed to produce
> coordinates in pt (and label them). However, that change may break
> other users (are there any?) of dvipos.
>
well, a solution could be to add a switch --unit= ; maybe taco can make a
patch; normally Choff is very responsive to such things; an alternative is that
i adapt the dvi driver part a bit (no time now, maybe later) ; i adapted this
stuff a bit when i made the mkiv code (which permits me to keep track of
milions of positions with hardy any overhead -- also, much aux file stuff is
already moved to lua tables then)
Hans
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