At 8:45 AM +0200 6/27/05, Martin Costabel wrote:
Cyrille Artho wrote:
...
When using latex, it now runs as "pdftex" and produces a pdf file.
All switches such as -format, -output-format etc. have been
unsuccessful in trying to make etex produce a dvi file.
How can I fix this?
pdflatex is perfectly capable of producing dvi files and does so by
default. My guess is that you have some old configuration either in
your private tex directories or in /sw/var/lib/texmf/ that override
or perturb the configuration of the new tex installation. I have
seen this on some systems. There is no very easy way out, the
simplest perhaps being to force-remove all tex packages, move your
~/Library/texmf and ~/.texmf-{var,config} directories out of the
way, make sure that /sw/var/lib/texmf is empty, and then reinstall
the tex packages. I don't know, however, how this works with ptex,
if this is what you are using.
I wonder whether there is a critical configuration file, such as
/sw/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, that may have been overwritten.
There are probably other such configuration files that might be
involved. Perhaps an alternative to removing all your tex packages
would be to contact the (US) TeX Users' Group, http://www.tug.org/. A
list of TeX user groups is at http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html.
HTH,
Jonathan
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