Hi Mike, David, Herb,
On Jun 16, 2016, at 8:46 AM, maxwell
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
With the help of David Carlisle and Herbert Schulz, I've found part of the
problem. For some reason, in the (our?) 2016 version, kpsewhich points to this
hyperref.cfg file:
...texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/latex/listings-ext/hyperref.cfg
I’m seeing the same behaviour, but for me the packages are as follows:
(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/hyperref.cfg)
/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty:4322: Packag
e hyperref Error: Wrong DVI mode driver option `dvipdfmx',
(hyperref) because XeTeX is running.
This .cfg file contains a \hypersetup{...} command that specifies 'ps2pdf'.
Changing that to 'xetex' fixes the problem, at least for xelatex (I'm not sure
what would happen with other flavors of latex). (Update: removing the line
entirely, so it specifies neither xetex nor ps2pdf, works too, and presumably
won't cause trouble for other latices.)
But:
1) Why does kpsewhich find that file, instead of this one:
...texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/hyperref.cfg
which does not have any \hypersetup{} command, and which would
presumably not cause the same problem?
2) Why did this change from 2015 to 2016? We did a pretty vanilla
install, I think the only non-default choice we made was to use
'letter' instead of 'a4'.
3) Is this a bug? (meaning should I report it?)
Here is the relevant coding from hyperref.sty with annotations added by me.
\newif\ifHy@DviMode
This defines \ifHy@DviMode and switches, leaves it as \iffalse
\let\Hy@DviErrMsg\ltx@empty
\ifpdf
\def\Hy@DviErrMsg{pdfTeX or LuaTeX is running in PDF mode}%
\else
\ifxetex
This is already \iftrue
\def\Hy@DviErrMsg{XeTeX is running}%
… but surely we should be setting \Hy@DviModetrue here !!!
\else
\ifvtex
\ifvtexdvi
\Hy@DviModetrue
\else
\def\Hy@DviErrMsg{VTeX is running, but not in DVI mode}%
\fi
\else
\Hy@DviModetrue
\fi
\fi
\fi
The result is that when you subsequently request [dvipdfmx] or any other
driver,
hyperref thinks that we are in non-dvi mode, so *incorrectly* throws the error.
So it’s surely an omission in hyperref.sty .
But you don’t actually need to specify a driver option,
and everything works OK anyway.
Mike Maxwell
Hope this helps,
Ross
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