On Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:04 PM C Y wrote: >... > Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > i've never seen latex output a pdf. always a dvi. > > this must be new behavior. > > I believe it is. This thread is another instance of someone seeing > this behavior: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345681-highlight-dvi+pdf+latex.html > > I have tested this, and the new behavior seems to be to produce pdf > only if any of the options in the document are pdf specific. >
It seems to me that you must be using 'pdfeTeX' which is a variant of the standard tetex distributed with most linux systems. We have this version installed on the axiom-developer.org server: % latex -v pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) ------- 'pdfeTeX' will generate both dvi and pdf output. I tried this in a few cases to generate pdf output for the MathAction implementation of pamphlets but in the end I opted to use the more conventional approach of 'dvipdfm' which generates the pdf file from the dvi file. Like this: *.tex ----> Latex ----> *.dvi ---> dvipdfm ----> *.pdf As long as you specific the 'dvipdfm' option as a hyperref parameter, then this seems to produce good results with hyperlinks and other hyperref extensions. You can see a few examples of this in the Axiom source files on MathAction. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
