[tex-live] dvips for windows behaviour

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Wed Nov 28 12:46:00 CET 2007


On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:05:34AM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> Hi Siep Kroonenberg,
> 
> > >   dvips sample2e
> > >   dvips -l2 sample2e
> > >   dvips -p2 -l3 sample2e
> > > 
> > > The first two commands work as expected. The third one gives
> > > 
> > > dvips: ! DVI file contains unexpected Omega command (121)
> > 
> > I can reproduce this under Windows 2000.
> 
> The default of dvips (w32) is "-noomega" and
> dvips (w32) has a switch -noomega0, namely,
> 
> dvips (Unix) == dvips -noomega0 (w32)
> dvips -noomega (Unix) == dvips (w32)
> 
> Please try
> dvips -noomega0 -p2 -l3 sample2e
> or
> odvips -p2 -l3 sample2e

Both work.

> PS: I don't understand why "dvips -p2 -l3 sample2e"
> requires omega extension.

Me neither.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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