For me latex and pdflatex work fine on Tiger, just as they do on
Panther (with everything up to date).
So _fortunately_ the earlier message on latex being renamed to pslatex
(and latex becoming pdflatex) was not quite correct (that would just
have been crazy):
Typing latex still produces a dvi file.
Maybe an example will help: here is a file I called fomula.tex,
documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
Nobody would ever claim that \quad
$
\vec\alpha_1(\xi,x)=\frac{\dot{\mathbf r}}{\vert \hbar\vert}\mbox{\quad
for\,\,}\xi\neq 0
$
\end{document}
This generates the following output (on my Tiger machine with
update-all performed three days ago):
latex formula
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./formula.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
) (./formula.aux) [1] (./formula.aux) )
Output written on formula.dvi (1 page, 644 bytes).
Transcript written on formula.log.
It would be crazy if the default for latex had been changed to invoke
pdflatex - a decade's worth of old LaTeX sources would suddenly have to
be compiled differently. Certainly pdflatex may be the best choice for
newly created documents, and that's probably why applications like
TeXShop or Equation Service use it as their default.
On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:12 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Brian J. Lopes wrote:
I tried to install amarok, which apparently wanted to upgrade my
tetex installation.
So now I have followed all the tips given by fink to update my
tetex-base and tetex-texmf installations. It said to update
tetex-texmf then install tetex-base. Well, after running fink
selfupdate, trying to upgrade the packages, I seem to have recovered
my tetex installation (thank God). Yet, when running latex (not
pdflatex) on the file it no longer compiles to make a dvi file, but
instead a pdf file. Is this the default behavior now? Is it
possible not to have latex run pdflatex somehow?
The default behavior should still be to create dvi output. Are you
sure you don't use a package that sets \pdfoutput=1 somewhere? Things
can also go wrong during format creation. Have a look at the log file
~/.texmf-var/web2c/latex.log. It should show lines like
***latex.ini
(/sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
(/sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
In /sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/config/latex.ini you find the code
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
\else
\ifx\pdfoutput\relax
\else
\input pdftexconfig
\pdfoutput=0
\fi
\fi
This sets the default output to dvi, and this is hardcoded in your
latex.fmt.
--
Martin
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